[kushie18]

May 15, 2024. Prime Minister Robert Fico was shot five times and critically wounded, the nation’s interior minister said, in what officials said was a politically motivated assassination attempt. A suspect was detained.

It was the most serious attack on a European leader in decades, drawing shock and condemnation from Slovak officials and other European leaders and stoking fears that Europe’s increasingly polarized and venomous political debates had tipped into violence.

When asked about the identity of the attacker, the interior minister, Matus Sutaj Estok, declined to provide further detail. “Not today,” he said, adding that officials would provide more information in the “coming days.”

The interior minister also told reporters that Mr. Fico was still in surgery and remains in critical condition.

Slovakia’s interior minister, Matus Sutaj Estok, said in a news conference that an investigation into the attack against Mr. Fico is ongoing, and initial evidence “clearly points to a political motivation.”

Videos from the scene indicate that the attacker shot the prime minister, Robert Fico, in Banikov Square, in the center of the town of Handlova. The attacker is seen standing with other people behind a barrier before shooting Mr. Fico when he came to greet them. Mr. Fico had been at an event in Handlova’s House of Culture, according to Slovakian media.

Slovakia’s interior minister, Matus Sutaj Estok, said that the assassination attempt would be investigated “as quickly as possible.” “Slovakia is experiencing the worst day of its democracy,” he wrote on Facebook. “For the first time in the 31 years of our democratic sovereign republic, it happened that someone decided to express a political opinion not in an election, but with a gun on the street.”

Fico was airlifted to the F.D. Roosevelt Hospital in Banska Bystrica, a city near Handlova, according to Slovak officials.

The perpetrator has been identified as 71-Year old Juraj Cintula
A interrogation has been released, Cintula states the motive was because he disagreed with P.M. Robert Fico policies.

[x68000]

Hope he pulls through and this maggot rots in jail.

[dreamsneverend]

Originally Posted by x68000 ↗

Hope he pulls through and this maggot rots in jail.

why? fico is a putz, not that he deserves to be shot. rolling over for Putin and saying he would block Ukraine from joining NATO is pure cowardice.

[JoseQuinones]

I wonder if anybody in California is loping around in a purple shirt that says SLOVAKIA on the back.

[v1r]

Originally Posted by JoseQuinones ↗

I wonder if anybody in California is loping around in a purple shirt that says SLOVAKIA on the back.

[flpsirius]

nice job! i feel sorry about the old writer

[kushie18]

updated with perp name + interrogation idk what hes saying but if someone does please tell us

[kellyhound]

He was a writer, poet and anti-violence movement founder. On its Facebook page, The Movement Against Violence describes itself as a 'emerging political party whose goal is to prevent the spread of violence in society. To prevent war in Europe and the spread of hatred.'

The last post is from April 2022, a few weeks after the start of the war in Ukraine and says:' What Slavic brotherhood? He is only the aggressor and the attacked.'

Cintula is also believed to be linked to pro-Russian group Slovački branci, a Hungarian investigative journalist Szabolcs Panyi unearthed Facebook posts reportedly showing Cintula as a sympathiser and supporter of the pro-Russian paramilitary group, known for its links to the Kremlin.

In another post, he criticised Fico's governent for not cracking down on gambling.

'In every city or village there is a slot machine on which gamblers masturbate for money borrowed from their whole family and acquaintances, it is tens of thousands of euros. What is the state doing about it?' he wrote.

Yesterday his son was quoted as telling local media: 'I have no idea what father intended, what he planned, why it happened. Maybe there was some short circuit.'

It emerged that in 2016, while working as a security guard in a supermarket in Levice, Cintula was attacked by a man and left badly bruised.

[SkinnyFella]

Originally Posted by dreamsneverend ↗

why? fico is a putz, not that he deserves to be shot. rolling over for Putin and saying he would block Ukraine from joining NATO is pure cowardice.

He also rolled over for a few of those shots in the video, it seems.

[akham]

Originally Posted by kellyhound ↗

... anti-violence movement founder.