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❗️ Slovak media reported a shooting in a building where a retreat meeting of the country’s government was being held. Prime Minister Robert Fico was wounded in the shooting, and the attacker has been detained. Now Fico is being taken to hospital, local media…
❗️Fico was shot several times, the prime minister’s guards lifted his body from the ground and took him away in a car, Dennikn reports.

According to the media, the police have cordoned off the shooting site and are not letting anyone in; the rest of the country’s government members are safe.

Prime Minister Fico has repeatedly spoken out against providing military assistance to Ukraine.

In addition, Fico emphasized that Bratislava is interested in good relations with Russia.
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❗️ Footage from the scene where Prime Minister Robert Fico was shot Subscribe to @SputnikInt
N Magazine spoke to two people who were near Robert Fico when he was shot. “I was just going to shake his hand,” a man said. “When the shots rang out, I almost went deaf,” said another eyewitness, who did not want to give her name. She heard three or four shots.

She saw Fico fall to the ground in front of her and says she noticed bloody wounds on his chest and head. He can't say how serious.

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N Magazine spoke to two people who were near Robert Fico when he was shot. “I was just going to shake his hand,” a man said. “When the shots rang out, I almost went deaf,” said another eyewitness, who did not want to give her name. She heard three or four…
Photo of Robert Fico's attacker. The man was hiding in the crowd that came for a meeting with the prime minister.

According to the latest reports, Fico has an abdominal injury.
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⚡️Video of the first seconds after the shooting in Slovakia, the wounded Prime Minister Fico is put into a car and urgently taken away from the scene of the shooting

Fico received several wounds in the chest and stomach, his condition is assessed as serious, writes Pravda.
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Photo of Robert Fico's attacker. The man was hiding in the crowd that came for a meeting with the prime minister. According to the latest reports, Fico has an abdominal injury.
❗️ Footage from the scene of the shooting where Fico was attacked after meeting several people outside a building in the town of Handlova, where a government retreat was being held.

An eyewitness said that he wanted to shake Fico's hand, but at that moment shots rang out, the newspaper Dennikn reports. The prime minister then fell to the ground. He is now in hospital, and his condition is unknown.
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Whose toes has Slovakia’s wildcard PM Fico stepped on?

Robert Fico has been injured in a shooting. The veteran politician returned to the Slovak prime minister’s seat last October, marking his fourth non-consecutive term as the Central European country’s leader.

The veteran populist politician – leader of the Direction –Social Democracy party, has racked up a long list of powerful enemies over his time in politics. Here’s a partial list:

▪️ Fico earned NATO’s ire after vowing to block the delivery of weapons to Ukraine during his latest run for office. Fico has also expressed dissatisfaction with Bratislava’s defense pact with Washington, promising to review it.

▪️ Fico has expressed fervent opposition to Ukraine’s membership in NATO, and said he believes Russia began its military operation as a result of neo-Nazis running rampant in Ukraine.

▪️ Fico has warned that Western military assistance to Ukraine will only prolong the crisis and increase the number of victims, and has accused foreign forces of meddling in the conflict, which “could have been extinguished at the very beginning.”

▪️ Fico believes anti-Russian sanctions have “negatively affected” the lives of ordinary Slovaks.

▪️ Fico has been bashed by European legacy media as a left-wing populist analogue of Hungarian right-wing populist Viktor Orban, with outlets pulling out all the stops to accuse him of “democratic backsliding” and “flouting European norms,” including over his push to reform the criminal code.

▪️ The Slovak PM has also made enemies with powerful European political and business interests, promising to launch an independent inquiry into the EU’s authoritarian pandemic-era policies.

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⚡️The man who shot Fico turned out to be a native of the Slovak city of Levice, reports TV Joj. The police are now looking into his motives.
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❗️ Slovak media reported a shooting in a building where a retreat meeting of the country’s government was being held. Prime Minister Robert Fico was wounded in the shooting, and the attacker has been detained. Now Fico is being taken to hospital, local media…
Hungarian PM Victor Orban commented on the Fico's assassination attempt:

"I was deeply shocked by the heinous attack against my friend, Prime Minister Robert Fico. We pray for his health and quick recovery! God bless him and his country!"
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❗️ Slovak media reported a shooting in a building where a retreat meeting of the country’s government was being held. Prime Minister Robert Fico was wounded in the shooting, and the attacker has been detained. Now Fico is being taken to hospital, local media…
❗️ Fico’s life is no longer in danger after the assassination attempt, the newspaper Dennikn reports, citing sources.

According to the sources, he suffered injuries to the abdomen and apparently to the arms and legs. He is currently being taken to hospital in Banska Bystrica.
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A post was published on Fico's official Facebook account saying:

"An attempt to assassinate R. Fico was made today. He has been shot multiple times and is currently in life-threatening condition. At this moment he is transported by helicopter to Banská Bystrica, because it would take too long to get to Bratislava due to the necessity of an acute procedure. The next few hours will decide."
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❗️ A 71-year-old man shot at the prime minister of Slovakia, the JoJ TV channel reported.
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❗️ A 71-year-old man shot at the prime minister of Slovakia, the JoJ TV channel reported.
According to unofficial information, the shooter is a writer, a supporter of the opposition party Progressive Slovakia, Juraj Cintula (born in 1953). His photo were published in social networks.
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Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has advocated for enhancing ties between Russia, the European Union and Slovakia, and in particular opposed sending troops to Ukraine.

Check out previous statements made by the Slovak PM regarding Ukraine, Russia-EU relations and Putin.
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