Slovak Prime Minister in Serious but Stable Condition, Suspect Charged With Attempted Murder

Published on May 16, 2024

BRATISLAVA/BANSKA BYSTRICA, Slovakia—Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico remains in a serious but stable condition and is able to speak a little, the country’s president-elect said on Thursday, a day after an assassination attempt that sent shock waves across Europe. The shooting was the first major assassination attempt on a European political leader for more than 20 years, and has drawn international condemnation. “He is able to speak but only a few sentences and then he is really tired because he is on some medication,” President-elect Peter Pellegrini, a Fico ally, told reporters after visiting the 59-year-old premier in hospital....

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