The shooter who made an attempt on Fico’s life, at the moment of his arrest Slovak media reported that the attacker was a former employee of a private security company and author of a poetry collection Juraj Cintula.
This is reported by local TV channel Markiza. In 2016, Cintula himself survived an assassination attempt when he was attacked in a shopping center in the town of Levice by a young man who was in an inebriated state.
Cintula’s son stated that his father had a gun permit and denied information that had emerged that Cintula was a patient of a psychiatric hospital.
Cintula is now in custody and his case is being handled by the National Criminal Agency of Slovakia.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor #Orban has said he is “deeply shocked” by the attack on Prime Minister Robert #Fiсo.
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!
— Orbán Viktor (@PM_ViktorOrban) May 15, 2024
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