Increased death threats against Slovak political officials

According to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency, citing the newspaper “Pasayr Noye Presse”, from Since the assassination attempt on Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, threats against other politicians in the country have also increased. Slovak Interior Minister Matus Sutaj Stock told the Pravda newspaper about this.

The minister, who belongs to the second largest government party “Hlas-Social Democracy” (Hlas-SD), said that he himself He has been threatened with death. A member of parliament from the largest state party “To – Slovak Social Democracy (Smer-SSD) led by Fico was also threatened. In both cases a criminal was identified.

Death threat against leader Michal Simčka The liberal opposition and his family were also identified earlier. Slovakian media also reported, citing experts, that in addition to specific death threats, the number of offensive statements on social media against the country’s authorities has increased sharply.

Fico, the 59-year-old leader of Slovakia’s leftist government, was shot several times by a 71-year-old man on Wednesday.He was still in the intensive care unit of a hospital over the weekend.

Fico On Wednesday, after participating in the meeting of the government delegation, he was shot in the country’s Ternjin region. The security forces have succeeded in arresting the attacker. He was transferred to the capital by helicopter.

The official accounts of the Slovak Prime Minister on social networks announced the deterioration of Robert Fico’s condition due to multiple gunshot wounds.

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