Slovakia PM Robert Fico not in life-threatening condition - deputy PM

[Kennah]

Source: BBC

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico is no longer in a life-threatening condition after being shot several times, the deputy prime minister has said.

Tomas Taraba told the BBC Mr Fico's surgery had gone "well" and "I guess that at the end he will survive".

Earlier the defence minister said Mr Fico was "fighting for his life" after being gravely injured in an attack in the small town of Handlova.

A suspect was detained at the scene of the shooting.

Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-69019121

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I'm no fan of Fico, but I don't want to see anyone assassinated—particularly a political assassination right now to upset the house of cards that is world politics today.

[irisblue]

1. Good to hear. Killing Balkin leaders has never been good

See Guns Of August and wiki the immediate origins of WW1 . We all know here are DU WW1 lead to WW2

[thomski64]

2. ..not a huge fan of assassinations....

..interesting that the political killings of the 1960's seemed to subside once J. Edgar Hoover no longer ran the FBI... just saying..

[RazorbackExpat]

3. After Bobby Kennedy was assassinated, there was the attempted assassination of George Wallace in 1972,

then two attempts on Gerald Ford in 1975, and one attempt on Reagan in 1981.