The populist prime minister of Slovakia, Robert Fico, was in life-threatening condition Wednesday after being shot in an “attempted assassination,” his office said.
Fico’s Facebook page said in an update: “He was shot multiple times and is in a life-threatening state.”
It said that he was being taken to a hospital in the city of Banská Bystrica rather than in the capital, Bratislava, because “it would take too long considering the urgency of the matter.”
The country’s president confirmed the attack on Fico, 59, shortly after the news broke.
“Utterly shocked by today’s brutal and reckless attack on #Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico, which I condemn in strongest possible terms,” Zuzana Čaputová said in a message on X….
