'Assassination attempt' leaves Slovakian PM Fico in 'life-threatening condition' | DW News

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Published 2024-05-15
Prime Minister Robert Fico has been injured in a shooting and taken to hospital. A witness told Reuters news agency he saw a man being detained by police. The incident followed a government meeting in the town of Handlova, 150 kilometres north of the capital Bratislava. The interior ministry has described it as an assassination attempt. Slovakia's President has called it a 'brutal and reckless' attack.

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All Comments (21)
  • @billb4089
    Waiting for Russia to blame Ukraine.
  • @hape3862
    "These violent delights have violent ends." (Shakespeare)
  • @Howiex-is8gq
    Putin said, it wasnt terrorrism. It was special military operation...
  • @user-sk6qj9yf6w
    Чем известен премьер Словакии Фицо, на которого совершено покушение: — Правительство Словакии заблокировало выделение республикой нового пакета военной помощи Украине на 40,3 миллиона евро; — Он пообещал, что Словакия не поддержит заявку Украины на членство в НАТО, поскольку это самая «большая бессмыслица»; — Фицо заявлял, что страна не будет более посылать Киеву военную помощь; — По его мнению, военная помощь Запада Украине не имеет смысла и ведёт лишь к увеличению числа жертв конфликта; — Антироссийские санкции он считает «негативно отражающимися на жителях Словакии».
  • @zamecdus1788
    *Slovak, not Slovakian. Yes, you'll find "Slovakian" in descriptivist dictionaries (thanks, US), but it's the same as "Englishian"
  • @jamesmoore9511
    There appears to have been a water canon from a blue vehicle turned on in the background at (3:50) any information on that event?
  • @WBCStudio.
    So, despite all the bodyguards surrounding him, the shooter was still able to inflict grave injuries to him?
  • @geoms6263
    A pro-Russian politician? I can't believe it, it was as if they were loved all over the world....
  • Fico's a criminal that had a reporter who was investigating him murdered in addition to his fiance, the reporter's name was Jan Kuciak.
  • @grouchyotter07
    Wow that correspondent went to great lengths to say a whole lot, but no actual information. "Fico says bad things about the opposition, and the opposition doesnt like him". You dont say?
  • @kbboy101
    "Interior ministry says it was an assassination attempt"....no kidding Sherlock, we thought they were just playing hand slaps. Why did they take him in his car, and not an ambulance?
  • @windsnexus9064
    This is what being a putin ally always leads to. No matter what