{"id":53649,"date":"2024-05-18T17:06:31","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T17:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/18\/slovak-prime-minister-is-improving-after-second-operation-official-says\/"},"modified":"2024-05-18T17:06:31","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T17:06:31","slug":"slovak-prime-minister-is-improving-after-second-operation-official-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/18\/slovak-prime-minister-is-improving-after-second-operation-official-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Slovak Prime Minister Is Improving After Second Operation, Official Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/05\/18\/multimedia\/18slovakia-1-qjkf\/18slovakia-1-qjkf-facebookJumbo.jpg?fit=1050,550&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Slovak Prime Minister Is Improving After Second Operation, Official Says\" title=\"Slovak Prime Minister Is Improving After Second Operation, Official Says\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Slovakia\u2019s prime minister, Robert Fico, was in improving health on Saturday morning, the country\u2019s deputy minister said, after having a second surgery on the wounds he sustained when he was shot in an <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/15\/world\/europe\/slovakia-prime-minister-robert-fico-assassination-attempt.html\" title=\"\">assassination attempt on Wednesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cSeveral miracles happened,\u201d the deputy minister, Robert Kalinak, told reporters. He added of Mr. Fico, \u201cHe is conscious, with all the limitations of this serious injury.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Kalinak made the remarks in front of the F.D. Roosevelt University Hospital in the central city of Banska Bystrica, where Mr. Fico was taken after he was shot multiple times by a lone gunman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Earlier Saturday morning, in a different part of the country, the 71-year-old <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/18\/world\/europe\/slovakia-shooter-suspect.html\" title=\"\">suspect in the shooting<\/a>, a man identified by the authorities only as Juraj C., was presented to a judge, who ordered that he would remain in custody until trial.<\/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 shooting, which occurred in the town of Handlova, in the center of Slovakia, was the most serious attack on a European leader in decades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Fico was shot multiple times, but Mr. Kalinak explained during a television interview on Saturday that one of the wounds posed the greatest risk to Mr. Fico\u2019s health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Friday, Mr. Kalinak said, doctors removed infected tissue from the area of that wound in the second emergency surgery Mr. Fico has had since the attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Because of the severity of his injuries, Mr. Kalinak said, Mr. Fico will not be able to be transferred to Bratislava, Slovakia\u2019s capital and largest city, for at least a few more days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Also on Saturday morning, in Pezinok, a city in western Slovakia, some 12 miles from Bratislava, Slovak and international reporters waited outside a court building while special police forces secured the surroundings before bringing in the suspect for an appearance before a judge.<\/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\">After a closed hearing, the judge ordered that the suspect would remain in custody until the authorities can charge and try him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe reason for detention is the fear of possible escape, as well as the continuation of criminal activity,\u201d said Katarina Kudjakova, a spokeswoman for the court.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/18\/world\/europe\/slovak-prime-minister-shooting.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slovakia\u2019s prime minister, Robert Fico, was in improving health on Saturday morning, the country\u2019s deputy minister said, after having a second surgery on the wounds he sustained when he was shot in an assassination attempt on Wednesday. \u201cSeveral miracles happened,\u201d the deputy minister, Robert Kalinak, told reporters. He added of Mr. Fico, \u201cHe is conscious, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53650,"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\/18\/multimedia\/18slovakia-1-qjkf\/18slovakia-1-qjkf-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16669,2124,2008,6463,8088,51189],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53649"}],"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=53649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53651,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53649\/revisions\/53651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}