Slovakia PM Robert Fico suffers life-threatening wounds in assassination attempt • FRANCE 24
Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico was battling life-threatening wounds Wednesday after officials said he was shot multiple times in an assassination attempt condemned by European leaders. For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective on the attempt made on the life of Slovakia's populist pro-Russian PM, FRANCE 24's François Picard is joined by fellow journalists: Monte Francis, Europe Editor Armen Georgian, Prague correspondent Ian Willoughby, and our guest analyst Jacques Rupnik, Emeritus Research Director at CERI / Sciences Po, specialising in Central and Eastern Europe.
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The security is embarrassing!
@jakexgold3879
20 күн бұрын
Putin: “Robert got shot? He’s a Democrat then, throw him out of my car!”.
@jstewart4205
20 күн бұрын
@@2FLIPS3.5TWISTS - The UK has refused to sign it too.
His security guards were not well trained or disciplined.
@nosferatadentata965
20 күн бұрын
Nobody expect this sort of thing until it happens. Do you remember the assasination of Shinzo Abe?
@kayziacoutureclothing4035
20 күн бұрын
Please they should expect anything at any time@nosferatadentata965
@christinereich6050
19 күн бұрын
@@nosferatadentata965 yes!
@christinereich6050
19 күн бұрын
His security was awful. There was a police man who didn't even react for a while in the video. Sadly, their society won't be the same after this.
@dr.jdvoice1518
19 күн бұрын
@@christinereich6050 one didn’t react and the other ran away
Mr. Rupnik had an excelent insight on the topic. Greetins from Slovakia
Did they say 71 year old suspect?
@CC-xn5xi
20 күн бұрын
Yes. The shooter is apparently 71.
@gloryshadow8710
20 күн бұрын
Yes.
@jakexgold3879
20 күн бұрын
Gun sales jumped sharply globally, guns makes people younger!
@goldenaye3
20 күн бұрын
They should hand him over to the Russian's and he will say who paid him
@helenapappova6430
20 күн бұрын
@@goldenaye3 fico loves the russians and the russians love fico
He is 4th time premiér!
They threw a critically injured man into the car then didnt drive off. Whats the deal with all those security guys?
Of course, his opponents and those who don't agree with his policies see him as "divisive", and it seems that Western media have been instructed to label him that way. But he seems to have enough support from Slovak people since he has won already four elections to become Prime Minister.
@Endohell
17 күн бұрын
he went in jail. he leads a mafia and has plenty ennemy, not in politic. lots of people suffered death because of him actually.
I hate this "divisive" isn't every politician "devisive" otherwise there would be no.elections
@peabase
20 күн бұрын
If there are political assassinations -- or attempts thereof -- divisiness has reached a whole new level. This is not a binary world.
@j7j7j7j7x
16 күн бұрын
When they use it as a prefix to a name it becomes an epithet. And, against a terrorism victim is not nice.
Pro Russian anti American? This is how your news characterises him? Very WRONG. He is for cooperation with all based on what is the best for Slovakia. Please do not spread false ideology and lies.
@j7j7j7j7x
16 күн бұрын
There are several other glaring errors in the report. E.g. that a 'poet' pulled the trigger. Take a look for the 'published' poems..
Totally unsurprised about this happening. His security team seem to be totally unprepared.
@peabase
20 күн бұрын
You excel in hindsight.
As i heard Fico was pro Russian, i started using my keen power of deduction…🤔
@peabase
20 күн бұрын
Congrats, you've got what it takes to become a "successful" conspiracy theorist.
🙏 Hope he's well!
12:00- onward with Mr Jacques Rupnik is amazing content! He is a wealth of information and I highly respect him and appreciate him explaining the history over there for conservative Americans like me. I love to learn the background of the countries recent histories in order to understand better how you are were you are etcetera
@EmGee789
20 күн бұрын
He is spot on with everything he said 👍
better to be a "strong man figure" than to be a "weak man figure"
Jacques Rupnik 👍 your reporting is spot on!
*it looks like his spine might have been slightly effected unfortunately… ugh I pray he recovers* this isn’t the way to do things everyone. This isn’t right on any level. Period
@j7j7j7j7x
16 күн бұрын
Terrible visual if he is a wheelchair and ursala has to shake his hand. She has been part of a strategy of tension. I hope she will denonce this clearly.
All politicians are divisive. So if he's leaning towards NATO these news reporters won't say he is divisive, only because he has a different future for his nation doesn't mean he is divisive. Trump and Obama are divisive they have different views.
@sticklerforchange
20 күн бұрын
Although Obama never described people as pigs and rats.
Not that divisive,he was democratically elected
@jstewart4205
20 күн бұрын
It's the BBC...everything and everyone is 'divisive', if they don't follow the BBC's woke, luvvie rules. Just ask Lineker!
@peabase
20 күн бұрын
Divisiness and democracy aren't mutually exclusive.
He was a 71-year-old man who shot so it was a guy who remembered the Soviet occupation . I think this could have been a big part of the motive
He was against the who treaty and the world economic forum. Now there have been many associations across the globe over several years of anyone who goes against the establishment. Be honest!
In totally unrelated news, Slovakia recently refused to sign onto the WHO Pandemic Treaty out of concerns that it would weaken Slovakia's position as a sovereign state and also refused to open Slovakia’s borders to the free-for-all that’s going on across Europe and N America…..
@chadfarber6147
20 күн бұрын
…thanks for this info…did this PM support Slovakia’s stand against these matters?
@seanohare5488
20 күн бұрын
Interesting info thanks
@AllyGray
20 күн бұрын
@@chadfarber6147 yeah, he was being slandered in the media over it, calling him a conspiracy theorist
@chadfarber6147
20 күн бұрын
@@AllyGray …well, I know factually that these are NOT theories…they’re facts…tptb have their agenda on numerous sites…books from over a hundred years old now being reviewed by certain tubers states their agendas…none of this is a coincidence…even Dr. Sigmund Freud stated that there is no such thing as a coincidence. The term Conspiracy theorists’ was originally used by the cia about the JFK assassination for the ones that did not buy into that lone gunman/one magick bullet bs…to target, alienate, ostracize, blackball, destroy, remove from society…it worked among some that were not man enough to stand ground against their coup…but there were many others that knew about g*ns, bullets, hunting, etc…they knew bs from the beginning, especially tptb lack of knowledge and never flinched no matter what was said or done to cause fear…once one sees their patterns, etc there’s no going back…freedom is not free…be careful and safe…watch your back…but get prepared just in case…always …that’s what people with wisdom must do for our culture and our civilization to survive…🇺🇸👍🏻👍🏻🙏🏻
@jstewart4205
20 күн бұрын
With regards to WHO, so has the UK...I can't say we have been too successful, so far, with your other point.
What is happening in this planet Earth😳? I wish power to Slovakian people. And all over the world. This all strainge hate situation & crazyness must end, this hole era. This terrible hatred and bitterness has gone on for too long. Now we need people who are for Peace, all over the world, not against anyone but all for one thing: Peace!! JUST PEACE! And yes, im from Finland🇫🇮.
@dimakhidarkovskiy2175
20 күн бұрын
They appointed Joe Biden in America to install left wing dictator , and many
This old lady witness has become famous on all channels
The security is shocking.
The mainstream media is to blame.
@ika5666
20 күн бұрын
99%.
@pavelmuller3267
20 күн бұрын
Nope, Fico himself has been seeding hatered (and attacking independent media and journalists) for years now... A young journalist (Jan Kuciak) and his girlfriend have been killed by his mafia-friends recently... just to put it into context for you...
No body armour
@robertberberi6737
20 күн бұрын
Why a Prime minister should be wearing an body armor ?
@goldenaye3
20 күн бұрын
I don't think the body guards wore body armour
Hmmm this stinks; 1. Where is the blood? 2. How did he manage to get off 5 shots, at least one on target, whilst being tackled? 3. Why was the security detail so innefective? Those lads looked really handy - yet they acted like amateurs.
Very poor security and act too slow. God bless him and hope he is ok 🙏🙏🙏
Its been an hour; has the US State Dept announced that Ukraine was not involved?
@lTandermthrust2001
20 күн бұрын
@@bishopofsahs uncalled for.
@sticklerforchange
20 күн бұрын
@@lTandermthrust2001 Wait, this comment bothers you, but you think Obama and Fico are equally divisive? Odd.
@70AD-user45
20 күн бұрын
@@bishopofsahs Moron.
@dimakhidarkovskiy2175
20 күн бұрын
@@sticklerforchangeMarxist antesemite Obama is not devised, he is simple evil
A very sad incident, may God bless you with a speedy recovery.
Much better coverage at this stage than the BEEB.
@CC-xn5xi
20 күн бұрын
What is BEEB?
@joeymartoni
20 күн бұрын
BBC @@CC-xn5xi
Yes, gun shots sound very much like firecrackers.
Democracy is very often abused by politicians and people would do those things if politicians not taken accountable!!!
reminds me of the Abe assassination, lone wolf who took advantage of slack security
This is what happens when European Politician stands with their people instead of USA.
@innervisions1828
20 күн бұрын
WRONG! Rico was forced out in 2018 amid public outrage over the killing of a journalist who had been investigating ties between his associates and the Italian mafia. Pavol Hardos, a political scientist at Comenius University in Bratislava said he worried that Fico’s party would use the attack as a pretext to continue its effort to exert control over radio and television, for instance. “This will be a useful excuse for doing all the things they wanted to do,” he said. “They will be able to make the necessary steps even faster than they planned.”
@j.krii.
20 күн бұрын
Go back in the cave jihadist moron.
@matricci2256
20 күн бұрын
😂😂😂
@TENGRI-101
20 күн бұрын
If they stand with their people, you and your halal brothers are already back in muslim countries, habibi
@marmara9741
20 күн бұрын
@@TENGRI-101 you must be a *Hindu*. Your language is such.
Crucial information is missing
The progressive ideas that Jacques the old guy been interviewed here speaks of, have proved to be very authoritarian in Western Europe. Although Jacques claims Fico is authoritarian for not been taken over by these so called progressive ideas.
Biden and UK
@ThePWNDR
20 күн бұрын
Ruzzian bot. Shouldn’t you be conscripted and raping men?
This is the European democracy the civilised Europe continuously preach.
What is it with the handshake?
@EmGee789
20 күн бұрын
A common act when you meet someone. Never heard about it?
The shooter was a 71-year-old man, he was a political activist and voter the president of SR Zuzana Caputova from proBiden´s political party. The Assassin had political motivation.
Keep on rocking in the free world eh?
@bishopofsahs
20 күн бұрын
Where you at? You in a communist country communist dictatorship you watching TV
You saying "far right" is apart of the problem. Your fueling the hate.
@peabase
20 күн бұрын
The far right is fuelled by hate. It would sputter to a halt without hate.
Putin will be especially upset about this
This pro-US activitist is more out of mind.
Does he have any family? Wife, and children etc? I can't find anything online.
@gloryshadow8710
20 күн бұрын
You cant find Robert Fico on Wikipedia?... Really... Then you didnt look hard enough. Yes, he has a wife and son.
@Chris_Lopez_33
20 күн бұрын
he has, but the re not public, his wife is a teacher at the university in Bratislava
@EmGee789
20 күн бұрын
@@gloryshadow8710 also a lover and mafia friends
@JustDeLuca
20 күн бұрын
@gloryshadow8710 I read his Wikipedia, and it did not mention any family. And why keep wasting my time searching the internet when I can ask here and get an immediate answer. Thanks for that.
@jstewart4205
20 күн бұрын
@@JustDeLuca - This is the Internet.
My friend was imprisoned in Slovakia some years ago. He was suffering a manic episode acting crazy, plus he didn't speak Slovak; I don't know the details. Eventually word got back to his friends and he was rescued by the Mexican Ambassador, he being Mexican. I believe he did speak some Slovak by the time he got out...
@CarmenLucia.
20 күн бұрын
What Mexican Ambasador helped your friend, what year it happened? Thanks
no wonder,, with this weak and chaotic security in complete disarray the PM was easily a victim of the shooting
This is the best coverage and honestly truthful. No lies or fabrication. We wish prime minister Fico the best recovery and it's very sad to hear that there is such a political division in Slovakia.
Glad to get information I can't get on American news.
@jstewart4205
20 күн бұрын
Most Americans won't know where Slovakia is! 😉
@christinereich6050
19 күн бұрын
@@jstewart4205 My grandparents were from Slovakia (or shall I say the Austria Hungarian Empire)?
@connoisseur81
18 күн бұрын
@@jstewart4205👍🤝
Democracy is neither left-wing nor right-wing and everyone can be whoever they want as long as they follow certain rules and do not break them.
CIA responsible 😮😮
Pray to Almighty Allah for his early recovery and long life! ♥️
Two in three days
When a member of a community is a victim all are victims.
Who behind the Killer?
@mlulekishezi1798
20 күн бұрын
US
@Chris_Lopez_33
20 күн бұрын
it is possible it is opposition
@dellawrence4323
20 күн бұрын
CIA or the far leftist opposition.
@EmGee789
20 күн бұрын
The shooter was an old guy 71y, he had clearly enough of polarisation and hatred and lies spread by Fico and his admireres. Look up Jan Kuciak and his fiance shot dead - journalist who was writing about Fico and his ties with mafia
@helloicanseeu2
20 күн бұрын
Shinzo Abe, trust me...
Police and sicorty men very bad and lose they not come front of PM for save own PM so US get own target by one old man but Slovakia establishment some people help CIA in this attack.empossible establishment dont know before about this sassination this same cas of Japan PM sassination that was last year👈😢
Let this be a lesson for the lying leaders that never take responsibility for what they do and are never punished for lying their way into power!
@IceBox666theone666
20 күн бұрын
He was overwhelmingly elected 4 times as prime minister. This reeks of CIA work.
@2FLIPS3.5TWISTS
20 күн бұрын
We cannot trust the WHO especially now we have a reason, someone was taken out for this
@robertredford772
20 күн бұрын
This is your response after this criminal act???? People really lost their minds.
@2FLIPS3.5TWISTS
20 күн бұрын
@@STRUGGLE247 your an overseas bot here to divide but we are united
@amadeuz8161
20 күн бұрын
@@robertredford772 He was so honest that wouldn't surprise me if it was the same hitman as the reporter he had them take out...
Europe is so violent.
@Blanka1100
20 күн бұрын
unlike USA?
@connoisseur81
18 күн бұрын
@@Blanka1100👍
Was Fico on Zelenskyy's Kill List?
Police and sicorty was just doning Drama👈😢
life threatening wounds, stomach shot, he was carried like 5 meters by two guards and no blood on the street ? No blood on guards hands, suits or their snow-white shirts ? After the helicopter landing, no blood on the stretcher or white blanket or paramedics' uniforms or hands ... nothing ... not to mention the very slow pace of patient transportation from the helicopter landing site towards the ER entrance ... That's odd ... perhaps I watched too many movies ...
Mr. FICO IS 4times PM
Mr. Jacque Putnik very well summarized the situation in this sorry country...
All media report 100% same thing
@AdamBurianek92
20 күн бұрын
and? what would you expect? there has been shooting, there was a PM injured and that's it... we are waiting for more informations so there isn't much to inform about
@ArthurB26
20 күн бұрын
Do you expect them all to have different information? 😂
People who are pro-democracy and freedom loving remember World War 2 in Europeans haven’t forgotten!
@jstewart4205
20 күн бұрын
You have aged well, what's your secret?
20:27 Propaganda nonsense given that it is the US who first introduced the Foreign Agents Registration Act - Department of Justice.
@jstewart4205
20 күн бұрын
Do you think two unrelated acts, from two different Countries, are the same?
@JamesSmith-je7vf
19 күн бұрын
@@jstewart4205 Point is they are completely the same, only difference is the name of the country.
Blog is a cover, not sincere. The real story that is breaking -- some people seem to have had some knowledge in advance of what was coming. Also, that there is a third party who may be running ongoing cover.
@j7j7j7j7x
16 күн бұрын
Not a poet, no serious publications, just anti-immigrant rants. He was a political activist. There will be a real investigation. Please publish the words of the Slovak Defense Minister, otherwise F24 will seem to be biased, even favoring the terrorist.
@j7j7j7j7x
16 күн бұрын
Understatement at 9:20 -- The announcer says 'I don't want to jump to conclusions, but it is always a shock when there is an assassination against a sitting prime minister". That is embarrassing. What is he thinking???
CIA in action
@peabase
20 күн бұрын
You conspiracy theorists are terrible bores.
NATO and Cia American
@Flexiblesteel1
20 күн бұрын
What silly speculation. If this is what passes as trolling these days I hope you get your rubles withheld
@jstewart4205
20 күн бұрын
Or just a very silly old man!
CIA , UKRAINE you name it.....
He didn't believe in democracy and this is how disputes are resolved in autocracies.
@ottomanstamper7609
20 күн бұрын
How do you know he didn't believe in democracy?
@hhKJgf1M8a0rzt8hP
20 күн бұрын
@@ottomanstamper7609 because of his actions, he did everything possible against democracy and freedom, he also tried to cancel the public TV in Slovakia because they didn't report favorably of him. And Orban was his role model.
@ottomanstamper7609
20 күн бұрын
@@hhKJgf1M8a0rzt8hP Well, although the "tried to cancel the public TV" is something that could be shown to be true, the "because they didn't support him" is just speculation. Also, isn't it the case that the Western media (maybe even the TV in Slovakia) try to portray support for Zelensky as support for democracy, despite the fact that Zelensky has banned a lot of media that is critical of his actions? Would you make the same comment about Zelensky that you made about Fico?
@Qiushishuo
20 күн бұрын
@@hhKJgf1M8a0rzt8hPLots of other countries canceled TV but you still say they are democracy. It all depends they are with your interest or not.
@jstewart4205
20 күн бұрын
@@ottomanstamper7609 - I wish someone would cancel the BBC!
Russia or Islamist terrorist will be blamed? 😊
@Project02025
20 күн бұрын
Yep even tho we know the truth
he will be flown to moscow
@Chris_Lopez_33
20 күн бұрын
no he is in banska bystricas hospital
@jstewart4205
20 күн бұрын
Who?
What do you expect when a naive, young & populistic PM dancing around the adulation of Russia? Exactly this from a 71 year old who may know history better than the PM. Leaders need to LISTEN and MODERATE their language and behaviour. It’s genuinely not a surprised. Similar leaders with this attitude should heed to this.
@renatamayers6771
20 күн бұрын
You should not support or encourage violence. No matter what.
@hendriksadie9452
20 күн бұрын
It would be great to hear your response with regard to the violent nature of Mr Putin, encouraged by your PM, against other nations, Georgia, Ukraine and others. Just saying.
Future of ATTAL...🇫🇷 2024.
@mta1
20 күн бұрын
Pas la moindre possibilité vu don pédigré. Et on ne doit souhaiter la mort de personne.
What a joke Slovak president is a joke
@EmGee789
20 күн бұрын
You are a joke. She is smart and respected around the world.
Please 🙏 pray for the victim, please
@Peter-nu6ix
19 күн бұрын
Booth the victims; the shooter, 71-year-old Juraj Cintula, for what he and his family community and other nationals have experienced during their lives and also President Fico who will very likely recover, unlike the relatives of Juraj Cintula, who did not.
Western democracy has a problem with extremes on both sides of the political scene that feed each other, as well as extreme individualism. Similarly, democracy that does not concern the content and programs and boils down to playing on people's emotions makes no sense at all
@peabase
20 күн бұрын
There's no Western democracy. There's just democracy and lesser forms of democracy, all the way to authoritarianism. These lesser forms use "Western" as an excuse not to adopt full democracy.
What does it mean that Poland has returned to liberal democracy ??? In Poland, democracy still looks similar and the greatest media boom independent too took place in the times of PiS party such is reality even if someone denies it
@jstewart4205
20 күн бұрын
It's the BBC...don't take their bias to heart. In the UK, we have to pay for their crap!
did u know the french have alot to learn ...(out loud ,,,ur think ur so great ...ur not so great ...........)