Prime Minister Robert Ficy's wellness is inactive very serious, but at night doctors succeeded in stabilising him," said Slovakia's Minister of Defence Robert Kaliniak on Thursday morning. The State safety Council will meet on Thursday at 11 a.m.
"Currently, actions are being carried out to improve his condition," added Kaliniak during a gathering with journalists in Banská Bystrica, where the injured Prime Minister was transported. On Wednesday, the Slovak Prime Minister was shot in an assassination attempt. The attacker was to fire six shots, of which 2 bullets hit the politician in the abdomen and hip.
The perpetrator was 71-year-old Juraj. C, author and poet, associate of the Association of Slovak Writers. On the Internet, he posted a video of the reasons for the assassination. "I disagree with government policy. They are liquidated mass media, why is RTVS being attacked? Why (President RTVS Jan) Mazak was thrown out?” C said.
“Hospodarske Novina” reminds that the bomber came from Levice, in the south of Slovakia, and before 1989 he was an worker of the Czechoslovak safety service. In fresh years he has sympathized with the pro-Russian paramilitary organization of the Slovak Conscription.
For the first time in the modern past of Slovakia there has been an assassination of politics – the Slovak press comments on Thursday the attack on the head of government Robert Fica. Newspapers criticise the protection of the Prime Minister after the assassination and note that the reactions of Slovak politicians to this event can be divided into a conciliation in speech and attacking media.
The Independent "Dennik N" publishes a comment by erstwhile chief of the Slovak police chief Sztefan Harman, who very negatively assesses the operation of government protection. "There was chaos, it's obvious, and it's a failure," he says in a conversation with the newspaper. He points out that bodyguards should have put the prime minister in the car immediately and drove him distant from the scene due to the fact that there was no certainty that there were no more attackers. Harman besides recalls that Fico himself spoke of threats directed at him a fewer days ago.
The "SME" diary focuses on the reactions of politicians who spoke immediately after the assassination. He points out that while the leaders of the Hlas-SD co-ordinating organization and opposition groups reacted to the conciliation situation and urged unity, the coalition politicians of the Slovak National organization (SNS) and the Smer-SSD organization of Prime Minister Fica accused media and opposition of co-responsibility for attempting to assassinate the Prime Minister. “This is your job,” said Lubosz Blah of Smer-SSD to the opposition, and Andrej Danko stated that “political warfare begins for SNS at this stage” and announced “changes in the media”.
An interview with polytologist Tomasz Koziak appeared in the diary “Pravda”. It reads that the attack on the Prime Minister is the first specified incidental in the modern past of Slovakia, as well as the first attempted assassination of the head of government or state in Europe in 40 years. The paper besides wonders whether Fico himself had provoked the Wednesday bombing with his actions and actions.
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The prime minister Fico was shot by a 71-year-old associate of the Association of Slovak Writers
