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Slovakia's Prime Minister shot; currently in life-threatening condition

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BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — Media reports say Slovakia's populist Prime Minister Robert Fico was injured in a shooting and taken to hospital. The incident took place in the town of Handlova, some 150 kilometers northeast of the capital, according to the news television station TA3. A suspect has been detained, it said.

 

A message posted to Fico's Facebook account said that the leader "has been shot multiple times and is currently in life-threatening condition. At this moment he is transported by helicopter to Banská Bystrica, because it would take too long to get to Bratislava due to the necessity of an acute procedure. The next few hours will decide."

 

The shooting in Slovakia comes three weeks ahead of crucial European Parliament elections, in which populist and hard-right parties in the 27-nation bloc appear poised to make gains.

 

Deputy speaker of parliament Lubos Blaha confirmed the incident during a session of Slovakia's Parliament and adjourned it until further notice, the Slovak TASR news agency said.

Edited by JennyWayne

10 minutes ago, Mordecai said:

This is what happens when your country won't return to Eurovision

There is a time and a place for this kind of joke. This ain't it.

this is a MESS. I've already seen people celebrating this...

 

let's be clear, Fico is a piece of **** AND at the same time this is an absolutely awful thing to happen. not to mention him and his party will exploit this to further polarise Slovak society and double down on their authoritarian and far-right tendencies 

1 minute ago, ontherocks said:

He's pro Russia, so...

yeah and this will embolden him and his supporters to be even more pro-Russia so y'all cheering on this have no idea what you're dealing with. 

Since his party will benefit anyway we might as well just take the time to celebrate his suffering 

Wait is it the one who government was directly to connect to mafia who also killed young journalist few years ago.

 

 

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He is horrible but this is bad news, it's gonna further empower far-right propaganda 

This is horrible…no matter what…you need to work on electing people who can replace the people u hate not fuckjng kill them…wtf?!? :skull: obviously we don't know the full context of what's going on but yeah…this is massively concerning. 

25 minutes ago, mike_int said:

Wait is it the one who government was directly to connect to mafia who also killed young journalist few years ago.

 

 

yes

Smer just won every upcoming election in the next ten years

 

Spoiler

unless he d-words :-x

 

Whale… after reading about him.. I guess I'm not that shocked

 

I get the pearl clutching but these evil, evil leaders are literally kicking an entire world of hornets nests and people are heading past the breaking point. 

 

Maybe assassination attempts aren't the answer but they certainly will be a response if leaders continue to ignore the needs of their people.

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