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Robert Fico shooting was ‘politically motivated,’ Slovak officials say
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World leaders including U.S. President Joe Biden and European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen condemned the attack and sent their thoughts to Fico and his family.
Police identified the shooter as 71 year-old “Juraj C.” Witnesses alleged that after a government meeting, the attacker shouted to Fico to approach him, offering his hand, after which shots were fired.
Some government officials blamed the violence on Slovakia’s polarized political debate and climate of intolerance for differing viewpoints.
No head of an EU government has ever been killed while in office, stretching all the way back to the bloc’s early iterations as a coal and steel community in the wake of World War II.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said: “I am deeply shocked by the news of the cowardly attack on Slovakian Prime Minister Fico.
Even though assassination attempts on EU leaders are rare, political violence has rattled Europe more widely over the past half century.
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