An unusual profile. The alleged author of the attack against the Prime Minister of Slovakia, Robert Ficoit’s a 71-year-old man, poet and founder of a “left-wing reading” club. An individual who allegedly shot the Slovak leader several times, hitting him in the sternum and extremities.
Fico had chaired the meeting of his Council of Ministers this Wednesday in the municipality of Handlová, in the Trencín region, in front of the House of Culture. Upon leaving him, the prime minister went to greet the neighbors who were in the vicinity, at which time The attacker took advantage to shoot.
The Slovak leader was taken by helicopter to hospital in “very serious” condition, after being hit in the area of the sternum, abdomen and extremities. According to the authorities, this Thursday It is out of danger after a long surgical intervention.
The alleged perpetrator was arrested by police at the site of the attack.
Juraj Cintula, 71-year-old poet
The alleged attacker’s name is Juraj Cintulaa 71-year-old man who lives in the small city of Levicesouthwest of the European country.
One of the details that has caught the most attention is its profession. He is a poet, founder of the “leftist” reading club Duha and author of three books of poems and two novels: ‘The message of sacrifice’ (2010) and ‘Efata’ (2015).
The individual has a license to carry weapons because, in the past, he had worked as a security guard for a private security company in a shopping center.
The club created by Cintula was made up, above all, of older people – a total of 23 – and in 2022, one of its members ran as a candidate for deputy for him Slovak People’s Partyline extremist.
Local media also indicate that the individual has a license to carry weapons because, in the past, he had worked as security guard for a private company in a shopping center.
Cintula was also member of the Association of Slovak Writers and, according to the national media ‘Dennik N’, met in the past with slovak soldiersas well as with the pro-Russian group Slovenský branci.
Social media posts
According to information shared by Slovak recruits, what attracted Cintula to the pro-Russian group was his ability to act “without order of the State”. Cintula described the Slovak recruits as “patriots”.
In another post, he wrote that The State cannot protect its citizens and, therefore, it is its own population that should do it before it is “filled with criminal elements”, with repeated allusions to the immigrant people that arrive in the country.
Their references to this matter are recurring. The aforementioned media ‘Dennik N‘recovers part of one of his books,’Efata‘, in which charge against “the gypsies” ensuring that “There have never been so many gypsies in Europe” like then. “They know how to use social systems of the countries. The State does not solve the problem, it only feeds on it,” she asserted.
At that time, the alleged attacker founded a party under the name Movement against Violence (Hnutie proti nasiliuin Slovak), in which he used slogans such as “Let’s be dissatisfied, but let’s not be violent!”. “The world is full of violence and weapons. People seem to be going crazy”he said then.
The man who shot Prime Minister Fico – the 71-year-old Slovak poet Juraj Cintula – was the founder of the so-called “Movement against violence”. This is his proclamation from 2016. pic.twitter.com/IhIUfvjemi
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“Political motivation” in the assassination attempt
According to the authorities, the alleged attacker would have had a “clear political motivation” in the attempted murder of Fico. The hypotheses are based on a recorded videopresumably, after his arrest and spread by ‘Makiza TV‘.
In the images, not yet corroboratedCintula would claim that “does not agree with government policy”. “They eliminated the media, why are they attacking RTVS [radiotelevisión pública eslovaca, una de las reformas del Gobierno de Fico]why Mazák was fired [expresidente del Consejo Judicial]?”, he stated.
Robert Fico’s party has been suspended from the European group Party of European Socialists (PES) for its pacts with the extreme right.
On April 24, The Slovak Government approved the controversial law that advocates replacing the aforementioned public media by a new state institution.
Government of Robert Fico
The match of Robert Ficothe socialist formation SMERhas been suspended of the European group Party of European Socialists (PES) for their pacts with the extreme right. A formation that is described as “nationalist left.”
Fico won the elections with 23% of the votes in Slovakiaa country immersed in increasing polarization in recent years and in which insults towards the opposition and journalists continue.
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