Slovakia's PM Robert Fico: the target of an assassination attempt

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AFP English
  • 4 months ago
On Wednesday 15 May, shortly after leaving a post-cabinet meeting presser, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was shot multiple times in a politically motivated attack. Fico remains in critical but stable condition. His shooting has widely been condemned as an attack on democracy.
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00:00The state we have information from the operative is that the prime minister is in a critical
00:24condition and is in a life-threatening condition, these are the information we received about an hour ago and he is still in the operating room.
00:54He is able to speak, but only a few sentences and then he is really, really tired because
01:18he is under some medication, so of course it is very difficult for him.

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