Slovak leader in serious but stable condition after assassination try, hospital says
A suspect was in custody and the country's interior minister said that an initial investigation found "a clear political motivation" behind the attack on Prime Minister Robert Fico.
by The Associated Press
May 16, 2024
2 minutes
BANSKA BYSTRICA, Slovakia — Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was in serious but stable condition Thursday, a hospital official said, after the populist leader was shot multiple times in an assassination attempt that shook the small country and reverberated across the continent weeks before European elections.
A suspect was in custody, and Interior Minister Matus Sutaj Estok said Wednesday that an
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