2024-06-06 07:07:53
CTK
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In his first public assertion because the assassination of him in mid-Could, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico stated that he doesn’t really feel hatred in the direction of the attacker. However on the similar time, he known as the shooter an activist of the Slovak opposition and said that he had no cause to consider that it was an assault by a “lone madman”. He stated he might return to work in late June or early July.
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“The shooter was only a messenger of evil due to the opposition.” Fico appeared earlier than the general public for the primary time after the assassination, accusing the West. | Video: Aktualně.cz/Fb/Robert Fico
Fico devoted a big a part of his speech in a recording of roughly 14 minutes, printed on a social community, to criticism of opposition events. As well as, he criticized situations within the EU, in addition to Slovak non-governmental organizations, actors and the media.
He printed the speech just some hours earlier than the top of the Slovak marketing campaign for the European Parliament elections, which will likely be held within the nation on Saturday. In response, the top of the strongest opposition motion Progressive Slovakia, Michal Šimečka, stated that Fico’s first look was disappointing and that nothing had modified in his politics.
“I forgive him and let him take care of what he did and why he did it in his personal head. Ultimately, it’s evident that he was solely a messenger of evil and political hatred, which the politically unsuccessful and annoyed opposition developed in Slovakia to unmanageable proportions,” he stated Fico concerning the murderer, who, in line with Slovak media, is the 71-year-old author and activist Juraj Cintula. The shooter is being prosecuted in custody and faces 25 years in jail or life in jail for tried premeditated homicide.
In accordance with Fico, it ought to be anticipated that “the anti-government media, foreign-funded political NGOs and the opposition” will start to downplay the try to assassinate him. Fico, who earlier than the assassination didn’t spare the opposition, different political rivals or the media with impolite language, continued to criticize them this time as nicely. He claimed that the hatred and aggressiveness of the opposition was coated up and tolerated by a part of the media and non-governmental organizations.
“The opposition is abusing how massive democracies implement a single necessary view on main overseas coverage points and reject the sovereign positions of small international locations,” he stated.
“One Proper Opinion” Coverage
Within the speech, Fico additionally claimed that he didn’t agree with “the coverage of the one proper opinion, which as we speak is strongly promoted by some massive Western democracies”.
“The state of affairs within the relations between my political illustration and companions within the EU and NATO escalated after the Russian assault on Ukraine, the place we refused to supply Ukraine with any navy assist from the state reserves, aside from humanitarian assist, and the place we proceed to basically favor peace to struggle,” Fico stated.
It’s the battle in Ukraine, which has been resisting the Russian navy invasion for over two years, in line with Fitz, within the EU and NATO “sanctified the idea of the one right opinion, which is that the struggle in Ukraine should proceed in any respect prices with a purpose to weaken the Russian Federation”. He stated that the appropriate to a distinct opinion has ceased to exist within the EU. He claimed that the earlier Slovak authorities absolutely submitted to the pursuits of the large states and that in that interval the legal legislation was abused in Slovakia to liquidate the opposition.
The Slovak police and the particular prosecutor’s workplace, whose dissolution the present authorities pushed for after coming to energy final yr, have in recent times accused dozens of individuals in numerous instances from the time of Fico’s earlier ruling occasion, Smér-social democratie (Smér-SD). For instance, Směr-SD deputy and former police chief Tibor Gašpar is awaiting trial.
“For 14 minutes, the prime minister blamed the media, the opposition, artists, the EU and our overseas companions. As an alternative of actively contributing to social peace, he known as the bomber a ‘political opposition activist,'” stated Šimečka.
Within the recording, Fico didn’t remark additional on the accidents brought about to him by the murderer after the four-time prime minister got here to greet folks on the sq. in Handlová after a cupboard assembly. In accordance with out there info, Fico was shot 5 occasions within the small gut throughout the assault, and his arm and leg had been additionally injured. The prime minister confirmed that he’s being cared for on an outpatient foundation by certainly one of Bratislava’s hospitals; he was launched from the college hospital in Banská Bystrica to house care final week.