Slovakia's prime minister in life-threatening condition after assassination attempt

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(The Guardian) Slovakia's prime minister wounded in shooting: reports
The prime minister of Slovakia, Robert Fico, has been taken to hospital following a shooting incident, local media reported.

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Denník N writes that one of its reporters did not see the incident itself but heard several shots and then saw the prime minister being lifted from the ground by security guards and put into a car.

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Slovakia president condemns 'brutal' attack on prime minister Robert Fico
Zuzana Čaputová, Slovakia’s president, has condemned the ‘brutal’ attack on the prime minister, Robert Fico, and said she is wishing him recovery, Reuters reported.

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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.

 

[Webster]

The Guardian is covering it over on its Europe page....

Slovakia’s PM Robert Fico ‘in life-threatening condition’ after shooting; suspect detained – live updates

Robert Fico taken to hospital after four shots reported to have been fired after government meeting in Handlova

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Live updates: Shooting of Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico

Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico is in a life-threatening condition after being shot in an "assassination attempt," an official statement says. Follow for live news updates.

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Slovakia's Interior Minister Matúš Šutaj Eštok said the country is "experiencing the worst day of its democracy" following an assassination attempt on Prime Minister Robert Fico.

"For the first time in the 31 years of our democratic sovereign republic, someone has decided to express a political opinion not in an election but with a gun on the street," he wrote on his Facebook page.

"It is a terrible disappointment for me personally, how our joint effort to belong to the civilized world of the most advanced countries went in vain," the minister added.

He also said that he would do everything to ensure that "the assassination attempt, not only on the prime minister, but also on the entire democratic establishment, is investigated in detail as quickly as possible."

The minister went on to call the attack a "huge warning to the whole of society," adding that "if we do not stop now, we will destroy everything that binds us together as a nation."