He Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the attack against the prime minister of Slovakia, Robert Fico, who is in serious condition after being shot five times in the city of Handlová.
“The Government of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay expresses its firmest condemnation of the attack suffered by the Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic, Robert Fico, today,” he said. Chancellery through a statement, in which he also showed his “rejection of all uses of violence, including forms of political violence.”
After the shooting attack, Fico “fights for his life” in a “very complicated” operation at the Roosevelt Hospital in Banská Bystrica, according to the Slovak Defense Minister. Robert Kaliniak.
“His status is extremely serious”, added Kaliniak in an appearance before the press in which he indicated that the intervention had already lasted three and a half hours and added: “We all pray that the good constitution of the prime minister and modern medicine do their job.”
Political motivations
For the minister, “there is no doubt that it was an attack with political background”, by linking the attack in the context of “an inability to accept the will of society. Meanwhile, the Slovak Interior Minister, Matus Sutaj Estok, He also previously stressed that the attacker shot with “a clear political motivation.”
Slovakia has been immersed in massive protests since recent weeks against controversial decisions of the government, made up of the nationalist left and the extreme right, with measures such as the closure of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, that was investigating members of Fico’s party, and the plans to close public radio and television RTVS. In fact, this Wednesday the RTVS abolition bill, harshly criticized by the opposition, was being debated in parliament.
“I do not agree with the Government’s policy. The RTVS is being attacked and many people are resigning,” the alleged shooter told the TA3 network. Juraj Cingula, 71 years old, when he was taken to the police station to testify.
The leader of the opposition, the progressive Michal Simecka, has condemned the attack and canceled all public events, such as the protest in Bratislava against the RTVS bill, and campaign for the Europeans.
Source: Ambito
