Assassination attempt on the Prime Minister of Slovakia

[nimic]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/15/robert-fico-slovakia-prime-minister

Aktuality reports that the shooting was an assassination attempt.

The news outlet writes that the shooting took place when the prime minister, Robert Fico, came to shake hands with a small crowd of people.

Have we got any Slovaks on here? What could this be about?

 

[maniak]

He sounds like a nice fella, hope he recovers well.

 

[Solius]

I was in Bratislava recently on the night they elected their President. We were right next to the losing candidate as he walked in to his event place that night and walked past him the next day when he was doing interviews too.

Seemed like a peaceful place anyway! You could get very close to any of the leaders.

 

[Hanks]

Wild that two of the most high-profile assassination attempts on high-ranking politicians lately have happened in two of the safest countries out there.

Japan and Slovakia

 

[maniak]

I was in Bratislava recently on the night they elected their President. We were right next to the losing candidate as he walked in to his event place that night and walked past him the next day when he was doing interviews too.

Seemed like a peaceful place anyway! You could get very close to any of the leaders.

I assume it's like that in most european countries. If I want to and plan it, I can shake the hand of any portuguese politician without any security ever checking me.

 

[NicolaSacco]

Given that press releases in this kind of situation virtually always understate the seriousness of the injury, I find it worrying that his condition was very quickly described as ‘life threatening’.

 

[BarstoolProphet]

Given that press releases in this kind of situation virtually always understate the seriousness of the injury, I find it worrying that his condition was very quickly described as ‘life threatening’.

Yeah, and that they said the next few hours will be critical. Several gunshots to the stomach region doesn't sound good.

 

[NicolaSacco]

Yeah, and that they said the next few hours will be critical. Several gunshots to the stomach region doesn't sound good.

No, i totally agree. Far too many major blood vessels and vital organs in that area. I think i read somewhere that it was stomach AND head, but I can't find it now.

 

[Redplane]

Not that it justified any sort of attack: but isn't he known to be somewhat pro-Russia?

 

[Nani Nana]

Not that it justified any sort of attack: but isn't he known to be somewhat pro-Russia?

staunchly so yes

 

[Siorac]

The attacker was reportedly a member of a pro-Russian paramilitary group.

 

[VorZakone]

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[Gandalf]

The attacker was reportedly a member of a pro-Russian paramilitary group.

That would be surprising given his support for Russia and opposition to providing any support to Ukraine.

 

[Chumpsbechumps]

That would be surprising given his support for Russia and opposition to providing any support to Ukraine.

Unless it’s one of those conspiracy things where the pro Russians kill their own to get more support and power?

 

[nimic]

The attacker was reportedly a member of a pro-Russian paramilitary group.

Really? I heard on the radio that he was a member (or maybe affiliated with) of some kind of progressive party.

 

[Revan]

The attacker was reportedly a member of a pro-Russian paramilitary group.

That would be weird. Fico is probably even more pro-Putin than Orban.

 

[Giggsy PO]

Really? I heard on the radio that he was a member (or maybe affiliated with) of some kind of progressive party.

That was debunked quickly as a total lie.

 

[Frosty]

Really? I heard on the radio that he was a member (or maybe affiliated with) of some kind of progressive party.

That's democracy in Slovakia fecked for the foreseeable.

 

[nimic]

That was debunked quickly as a total lie.

Any links to a debunk?

 

[africanspur]

Slovak politicians with press conferences saying it was politically motivated and that its been stoked by the political differences people have had with Fico.

Doesn't really make sense at all that it would be a Pro Russian assailant in the circumstances?

 

[Giggsy PO]

Any links to a debunk?

Hore is the statement of the party leader.

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[africanspur]

Hore is the statement of the party leader.

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That isn't really a debunk is it? Its just saying its not a member of that politician's party?

 

[Giggsy PO]

That isn't really a debunk is it? Its just saying its not a member of that politician's party?

What kind of evidence were you expecting? It was disgusting and cheap shot to drag political opponents into this. It has no legs. On the contrary some information, photos etc. start to surface which links him with right wing extremists. E.g. He apparently wrote quite a racist book about Roma people.

 

[VorZakone]

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[Siorac]

That would be weird. Fico is probably even more pro-Putin than Orban.

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The guy who tweeted is a Hungarian investigative journalist, a pretty good one, too.

 

[Salt Bailly]

Released from hospital.