{"id":51176,"date":"2024-05-15T14:24:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T14:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/15\/slovakias-prime-minister-is-wounded-in-attack\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T14:24:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T14:24:12","slug":"slovakias-prime-minister-is-wounded-in-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/15\/slovakias-prime-minister-is-wounded-in-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Slovakia\u2019s Prime Minister Is Wounded in Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"549\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/05\/15\/multimedia\/15slovakia-01-wtfb\/15slovakia-01-wtfb-facebookJumbo.jpg?resize=1050,549&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Slovakia\u2019s Prime Minister Is Wounded in Attack\" title=\"Slovakia\u2019s Prime Minister Is Wounded in Attack\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Slovakia\u2019s populist prime minister, Robert Fico, was injured in an attack on Wednesday, according to the country\u2019s president.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Local media reported that Mr. Fico, a veteran politician, had been shot and wounded in the central Slovakian town of Handlova, where he had been meeting with supporters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">President Zuzana Caputova, whose pro-Western stance has put her at odds with Mr. Fico, condemned what she described as a \u201cbrutal and reckless attack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI am shocked,\u201d she wrote in a message on Facebook. \u201cI wish Robert Fico a lot of strength in this critical moment to recover from the attack.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The extent of Mr. Fico\u2019s injuries was not immediately known. There was no immediate comment from the prime minister\u2019s office or from the police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Images from the scene published by the Reuters news agency showing what appeared to be members of Mr. Fico\u2019s security detail running around a black sedan. Other images showed a person handcuffed on the ground at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Caputova, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/04\/06\/world\/europe\/slovakia-election-president.html?searchResultPosition=2\" title=\"\">whose term ends in June<\/a>, has used her limited powers to resist Mr. Fico\u2019s drift toward Russia and his efforts to limit the judiciary\u2019s ability to prosecute corruption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Fico has aligned with the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orban, in opposing aid to Ukraine and challenging mainstream opinions within the European Union.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission who has butted heads with Mr. Fico in the past, said she strongly condemned the \u201cvile attack.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cSuch acts of violence have no place in our society and undermine democracy, our most precious common good,\u201d she <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vonderleyen\/status\/1790739191866753069\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">wrote on social media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Fico, who <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/03\/15\/world\/europe\/slovakia-robert-fico-jan-kuciak.html\" title=\"\">ended an earlier stint as prime minister<\/a> by resigning in 2018 amid a swirl of corruption accusations, has also followed Mr. Orban in trying to neuter his country\u2019s judiciary and in casting supporters of Ukraine as disloyal lackeys of the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Fico returned to power after a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/09\/30\/world\/europe\/slovakia-election-ukraine.html\" title=\"\">general election in September<\/a>, reviving a political career that many had considered over when he quit amid large street protests after the killing of an investigative journalist who had been looking into government graft.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/15\/world\/europe\/slovakia-prime-minister-fico.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slovakia\u2019s populist prime minister, Robert Fico, was injured in an attack on Wednesday, according to the country\u2019s president. Local media reported that Mr. Fico, a veteran politician, had been shot and wounded in the central Slovakian town of Handlova, where he had been meeting with supporters. President Zuzana Caputova, whose pro-Western stance has put her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/05\/15\/multimedia\/15slovakia-01-wtfb\/15slovakia-01-wtfb-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2601,2124,8088,25818,22886],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51178,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51176\/revisions\/51178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}