BANSKA BYSTRICA, Slovakia: Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico fought for his life on an operating table Wednesday (May 15) after being shot multiple times in what the government called a "political assault".
Surgeons spent hours battling to save the 59-year-old populist leader after the attack that has been condemned around the world.
"The prime minister is in critical condition and his life is in danger and he is still in the operating theatre," Interior Minister Matus Sutaj Estok told reporters at a hospital in the central city of Banska Bystrica.
Footage of events just after the shooting showed security agents grabbing a wounded Fico from the ground and hustling him into a black car that sped away. Other police handcuffed a man on the pavement nearby.
Police had detained a suspect at the site of the attack in Handlova, President Zuzana Caputova told reporters. "I am shocked, we are all shocked by the terrible and heinous attack," she added.
Deputy Prime Minister Robert Kalinak would not give information on the suspect but said: "What has happened is a political assault. It's absolutely clear, and we have to react on that," Kalinak said.
The emotional minister told reporters he hoped that in coming days authorities would "find (out) what's happened. Now I'm just focusing on the status of Robert, on his health."
Fico was shot multiple times, according to a post on his official Facebook page.
"Today, after the government meeting in Handlova, there was an assassination attempt" on Fico, the government said.
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2024-05-15 14:44:00Z
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