The Slovak interior minister said Thursday that a 'lone wolf' has been charged in the shooting of Prime Minister Robert Fico.
Thursday, a hospital official said, after the populist leader was hit multiple times in an attempt on his life that shook the small country and reverberated across the continent weeks before European elections.
Interior Minister Matus Sutaj Estok said Wednesday that an initial investigation found “a clear political motivation” behind the attack on Fico while he was attending a government meeting in a former coal mining town. However, he said Thursday that the suspect charged was a lone wolf who “did not belong to any political groups.”
Outgoing President Zuzana Caputova, an opponent of Fico, said Thursday that the heads of the country’s political parties would meet in an effort to bring calm, saying the attack was a reflection of an increasingly polarized society. “If there is anything that the people of Slovakia urgently need today, it is at least basic agreement and unity among the Slovak political representation. And if not consensus, then please, at least civilized ways of discussing among each other,” Pelligrini said.
Doctors performed a five-hour operation on Fico, who was initially reported to be in life-threatening condition, according to the director of the F.D. RooseveltFive shots were fired outside a cultural center in the town of Handlova, nearly 85 miles northeast of the capital, government officials said.
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