Assassination Attempt on Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico

[Tuulikki]

The time which it would take for five shots to be fired, you would think one of the guards would have reacted sooner and disabled the gunman after perhaps a couple of shots. Five bullets at such short range would have done a lot of damage to the prime minister.

 

[Ben]

Western media just keep plumbing new depths. Fico was still undergoing emergency surgery in hospital when headlines and news coverage like this appeared.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1791440935898788112

https://twitter.com/x/status/1790988110920040689

This coverage is a good example of the kind of stoking of tensions that actually DOES contribute to events like this, although I'd be surprised if this really was an assassin acting completely alone with no involvement of SBU or Western intel.

If anyone expected this, it's the man himself:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1791432244659114276

 

[thorbiorn]

There are irregularities in the story surrounding the assassination attempt

In Slovakia, they are checking the version that the shooter in Fico did not act alone
The Slovak Interior Ministry is checking the version that the shooter in Fico did not act alone
BRATISLAVA, May 19-RIA Novosti.
Slovak investigators are investigating the possibility that the person who attempted to assassinate Prime Minister Robert Fico did not act alone, Interior Minister Matusz Shutaj-Esztok said.

"Two hours after the incident, his story on the social network Facebook* was erased, this was not done by him or his wife," he said at a press conference.
Now the investigation is checking the version that someone could have incited the shooter to commit a crime.
[...]

There was also:

Who Is Juraj Cintula?
Is the man who tried to assassinate Slovak Prime Minister Fico really a “lone wolf”?
By John Leake | Courageous Discourse™ | May 16, 2024

[...]

Like many other reasonable people, I noticed that Prime Minister Fico has vocally criticized COVID-19 vaccines, endless shipments of weapons to Ukraine, mass immigration, transgender ideology, and climate change ideology. This makes him one of the few heads of state in Europe who has challenged all four articles of faith in what I call the Holy Quadripartitus of Piffle.

1). COVID-19 vaccines are saving mankind. Anyone who questions the safety and efficacy of the vaccines is guilty of heresy.

2). The U.S. proxy war in Ukraine is a sacred mission and no negotiated settlement with Russia shall be countenanced. Anyone who criticizes the Ukrainian and U.S. governments, and any attempt to understand the war from the Russian point of view, is guilty of heresy.

3). Human induced climate change will soon destroy the earth if trillions aren’t spent to overhaul our entire energy policy. Anyone who questions this proposition is guilty of heresy.

4). The concept of biological sex is a mere “construct.” Skilled surgeons and endocrinologists can transform a boy into a girl or vice versa. Anyone who questions this assertion is guilty of heresy.

Given the fervent belief in the Holy Quadripartitus—the Nicene Creed of the vaccine cartel, arms dealers, money launderers, lobbyists, racketeers, and child butchers—it is a matter of certainty that Prime Minister Fico has a vast array of powerful enemies.

Regarding vaccines, or related, there was:

Slovakia will not support new pandemic treaty
10. 05. 2024 16:02 | News17: 30 on(updated: 18: 32 on 19.05.2024)

Good that Fico’s condition ‘no longer life-threatening’ – Slovak deputy PM

 

[youlik]

Thanks, but that won't do. Ukrops does not count, they have been crazy for a long time and they have nothing but Russia in their head at all. Some Europeans, Czechs, for example, or the British. At the very least, the Poles.

I waited. Of course, I don't have to consider myself Nostradamus in this situation. It was predictable, but damn it, why did I have to wait so long?!

Zakharova called Russia's accusations of an attempt on Fico a fit of madness

The official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs drew attention to the fact that The Times newspaper became the first media outlet that unfairly accused the Russian Federation of involvement in the attack on the Slovak prime Minister
MOSCOW, May 21. /tass/. Russia's accusations of alleged involvement in the assassination attempt on Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico are a fit of madness. This was stated by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova.

"The British tabloid The Times believes that Russia is behind the assassination attempt on the Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovakia, Robert Fico. Peter Konradi, a columnist and editor-in-chief of the publication in Bratislava, shared this fit of madness," the diplomat wrote on her Telegram channel.

She drew attention to the fact that The Times newspaper became the first media outlet to unfairly accuse Russia of involvement in the attack on the Slovak prime minister. "It's dangerous to wrap even dried roach in this newspaper - the fish will go crazy," Zakharova noted ironically.

https://tass.ru/politika/20866545?utm_source=yxnews&utm_medium=desktop

Spoiler: Russian spelling

Я дождался. Конечно же мне не приходится считать себя Нострадамусом в этой ситуации. Это было предсказуемо, но черт возьми, почему так долго пришлось ждать?!