Political violence appears to be right here to remain.
From the taking pictures of US GOP congressman Steve Scalise in 2017, to the knife assault on Brazilian Presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro in 2018, the previous Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s assassination in 2022, as much as the 2 makes an attempt on the lifetime of candidate Donald Trump this yr, the sinister pattern appears to be choosing up steam.
And, after all, there was the taking pictures try on the lifetime of Slovak President Robert Fico.
In Might, Fico was shot within the Slovak metropolis of Handlová, after an off-site authorities assembly.
Fico approached some individuals who had been greeting him, and it was at that second that a number of photographs had been fired.
The prime minister fell to the bottom.
Fico was critically wounded within the chest and stomach, and spent months within the hospital recuperating.
It’s one other sinister story – one which sadly could not have come to an finish.
Politico reported:
“Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico obtained an envelope containing a bullet from an unknown sender, the federal government stated Wednesday.
The matter has now been referred to Slovakia’s police drive.”
The menace follows the tried assassination of Fico by an opposition radical that uncovered Slovakia’s deeply polarized society.
“The person who shot Fico was recognized as 71-year-old Juraj Cintula, who stated he disagreed with the present authorities’s politics. He at the moment stays in custody, dealing with terrorism expenses and from 25 years to life in jail.”
Fico underwent a number of surgical procedures after sustaining life-threatening accidents within the taking pictures, and blamed the assault on the opposition in his first video look after being shot.
Ukrayinska Pravda reported the affirmation of the Slovak Authorities:
“‘We are able to affirm that an envelope containing a bullet, addressed to the Prime Minister of Slovakia, was delivered to the federal government workplace right now’.
[Slovak Paper] Aktuality stated the envelope is at the moment being examined by the employees of Slovakia’s Workplace for the Safety of Public Officers and Diplomatic Missions.”
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