BRATISLAVA (Slovakia), May 16 — Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico remains in a serious condition and it is too soon to say whether he will recover, a deputy prime minister...
Domino’s Pizza says leaving customer’s religious insult to cops, will act against staff for posting about case onlineA view shows a community centre, where the shooter who attempted the assassination of Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico attended literature club meetings, in Levice, Slovakia, May 16, 2024.
Interior Minister Matus Sutaj Estok, speaking at the same news conference, said the shooter—whom police have charged with attempted murder—had acted alone and had previously taken part in anti-government protests.“This is a lone wolf who had radicalised himself in the latest period after the presidential election ,” Sutaj Estok said.
Later today, Fico ally and President-elect Peter Pellegrini said that he had been able to speak with the prime minister briefly in hospital. “If there is anything the people of Slovakia urgently need today, it is at least a basic consensus and unity among Slovaks’ political representatives,” said Pellegrini, who won an April election for the mainly ceremonial post of president.Fico has dominated Slovak politics for much of the past two decades, winning re-election last October for a fourth stint as premier.
Fico was shot while greeting supporters in the street after chairing a government meeting in the central town of Handlova.
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