Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was shot and wounded instantly after the federal government assembly in Handlova, close to Bratislava. The alleged attacker, a 71-year-old man from Levice, was arrested by the police.
Fico was shot in entrance of a cultural heart, the place a authorities assembly was being held. According to journalists current on the scene, a number of photographs have been heard. «He was shot a number of instances and his life is at the moment in peril. At this second he’s being transported by helicopter to Banská Bystrica, as a result of it might take too lengthy to get to Bratislava » and an emergency process is required, « the subsequent few hours will likely be decisive». This is what we learn in a submit on the official Facebook account of Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico.
According to preliminary investigations by the Slovak police, the person who shot, wounding him within the abdomen and one arm with three or 4 photographs, aimed exactly on the prime minister. Now they’re working on him.
The reactions
“I’m utterly shocked by at the moment’s brutal and reckless assault on Prime Minister Robert Fico, which I condemn within the strongest attainable approach”, these are the phrases of the Slovak president, Zuzana Caputova, on X. «I want him a variety of energy on this important second and a speedy restoration – he wrote -. My ideas additionally go to his household and family members.”
The President of the EU Commission Ursula von der Leyen additionally selected X for her remark: «I strongly condemn the vile assault on Prime Minister Robert Fico. Such acts of violence haven’t any place in our society and undermine democracy, our most valuable widespread good. My ideas flip to Prime Minister Fico and his household.”
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban joins the refrain: «I used to be deeply shocked by the atrocious assault towards my buddy, Prime Minister Robert Fico – he writes in X -. We pray for his well being and a speedy restoration! God bless him and his nation.”
Matteo Salvini affords phrases of affection: «Our affectionate solidarity and closeness to him, his household and the Slovak folks». Foreign Minister Antonio Tajania is ready for extra info: «Certainly these are worrying issues, there should not be violence in Europe. But we have to perceive what it’s, it is too early to make a remark, we do not know if it is a terrorist factor or if it is a deranged individual.”
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz wrote in X that «The information of the cowardly assault on Prime Minister Robert Fico shocks me deeply. Violence should have no place in European politics”, he provides. “In these hours my ideas go to Prime Minister Fico, to his family members and to the residents of Slovakia.” Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni additionally spoke: «I discovered with deep dismay the information of the cowardly assault on the Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico. All my ideas are with him, his household and the pleasant Slovak folks. Also on behalf of the Italian authorities I want to categorical the strongest condemnation of any type of violence and assault on the cardinal rules of democracy and freedom.”
Another remark comes from NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg: «I’m shocked and appalled by the assault on Prime Minister Robert Fico. I hope he will get properly quickly. My ideas are with Robert Fico, his family members and the Slovak folks.” Strong condemnation of Volodymyr Zelensky for the “horrible” assault towards Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico. The feedback comply with each other and Ukrainian President Zelensky additionally intervenes: «We strongly condemn this act of violence towards the top of presidency of our accomplice nation», and urges us to make «each effort to make sure that violence doesn’t change into the norm in any nation, kind or scope”.