BREAKING: Slovak PM Robert Fico wounded/shot in the stomach in apparent assassination attempt

[Woody]

https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1790731659479752924
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1790735360797884821

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

What the hell

[Oryxslayer]

The police supposedly have arrested the perpetrator.

[Epaminondas]

Isn't this the EU populist striving to model his regime after Putin's?

[Hindsight was 2020]

Not a surprise seeing how polarizing of a figure he was domestically

[Estrella]

We’ve hit the lowest moral low, and he’s the victim and not the perpetrator. It’s not deserved, but it is darkly ironic. That’s all I’ll say about it.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Not a surprise seeing how polarizing of a figure he was domestically

This is the sort of thing that the happening of which easily looks like it makes sense after it happens, but not before.

[lfromnj]

1.Liberal?
2. Ukrainian
3. Far right?(not sure if they have that large of an issue with Fico)

[Estrella]

71 year old man from the nearby-ish town of Levice with a legally held gun who fired 4 or 5 shots at point-blank range, one of which hit Fico in either stomach or chest. May or may not be life-threatening, depending on which official source you listen to.

[Hindsight was 2020]

1.Liberal?
2. Ukrainian
3. Far right?(not sure if they have that large of an issue with Fico)

71 year old shop owner named J.C. Bran is all that’s been released

[Estrella]

Of course in the chaos of the situation it’s difficult to do things properly, but a well-known security expert and former director of government bodyguards’ office is on TV now and absolutely trashing Fico’s security detail for not following procedures and what he describes as staggering incompetence.

[TML]

Although I disagree with many of his political positions, this is clearly not the proper way to express such disagreements.

[Estrella]

Officially, the full name of the attacker has not been revealed. Unofficially, he’s not just some guy but a writer and a poet (an obscure one, but still). Juraj Cintula from Levice, born 1953. One of his books he summarized thus:

There have never been so many shameless gypsies in Europe as there are today. But they see well and know how to exploit the social systems of countries. The state is not solving the problem, it is just grazing on it. A hundred thousand Slovak gypsies wants to be liked by the whites, but they won't tell us. .. Let's be strict and fair with them...

He was in the news in 2016 for being beaten up when he worked as security at a supermarket in Levice.

[MayorCarcetti]

Morbid question - Has the incumbent leader of an EU nation ever been assassinated or had a serious attempt on their life?  Palme was shot before Sweden joined the EU and obviously there's the conspiracies Lech Kaczyński's plane crash but can't think of any at moment.

[TheTide]

Not seen any footage of the actual shooting itself, only the aftermath. Surely there is some given how public a place it happened in.

[Hindsight was 2020]

Woody you’re more likely to get taken out by Ukraine when the Russians realize paying you to be a fake American pushing their propaganda on websites is too expensive and mobilize you to be HIMARS fertilizer in the Donbas than it is that Ukraine had anything to do with this

[Estrella]

Not seen any footage of the actual shooting itself, only the aftermath. Surely there is some given how public a place it happened in.

https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1790764779742642668

https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1790746517935886392

https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1790732849139552548

[Red Velvet]

The only leader in Eastern Europe that I like. Hopefully the Social-Democrat Slovak leader recovers but his situation apparently seems very dangerous even if he’s still alive in the hospital.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I find that it is best not to leap to conclusions based on essentially nothing.

[Storr]

Officially, the full name of the attacker has not been revealed. Unofficially, he’s not just some guy but a writer and a poet (an obscure one, but still). Juraj Cintula from Levice, born 1953. One of his books he summarized thus:

There have never been so many shameless gypsies in Europe as there are today. But they see well and know how to exploit the social systems of countries. The state is not solving the problem, it is just grazing on it. A hundred thousand Slovak gypsies wants to be liked by the whites, but they won't tell us. .. Let's be strict and fair with them...

He was in the news in 2016 for being beaten up when he worked as security at a supermarket in Levice.

With that quote, he seems like the kind of person who'd claim Fico was a traitor for not being radical enough.

[Hindsight was 2020]

I find that it is best not to leap to conclusions based on essentially nothing.

Really one brand that two of three Russian stooges of the site (would probably be all three if the other one wasn’t tempban) are with no basis blaming Ukraine for this

[CumbrianLefty]

71 is quite old for a would be assassin isn't it.

Thomas Mair is one of the oldest recent ones I can recall and he was "only" in his 50s.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Estrella, could you please translate for us what these comments are saying.
Or at least the gist of what is being said.
Google Translate refuses to work on this page.

[Estrella]

Local news footage of the assassination attempt:

[Estrella]

Estrella, could you please translate for us what these comments are saying.
Or at least the gist of what is being said.
Google Translate refuses to work on this page.

Typical Facebook stuff. “I hope this progressive artist didn’t get a donation for this”, “typical Soros scenario”, “he deserves a bullet in the head”, “let’s pray for the salvation of Mr. Robert Fico” and so on.