Fico remains in intensive care but has ‘emerged from immediate threat to his life’, Robert Kaliňák tells reporters
Slovakia’s deputy prime minister, Robert Kaliňák, addresses reporters in Banská Bystrica outside the hospital where Robert Fico is being treated.Slovakia’s deputy prime minister, Robert Kaliňák, addresses reporters in Banská Bystrica outside the hospital where Robert Fico is being treated., is out of immediate danger but remains in intensive care four days after he was shot by a gunman, the country’s deputy prime minister has said.
“We can consider his condition stable with a positive prognosis,” Kaliňák said outside the hospital in the central city of Banská Bystrica, where Fico is being treated. He added: “We all feel a bit more relaxed now.” Slovakia’s interior minister, Matúš Šutaj-Eštok, said that if one of the shots “went just a few centimetres higher, it would have hit the prime minister’s liver”.The suspected gunman, identified by Slovak media as 71-year-old former security guard and amateur poet Juraj Cintula, has been charged with attempted premeditated murder and was put in pre-trial detention by a special penal court on Saturday.
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