PRAY FOR: Slovakian Prime Minister Fico, Reportedly Shot by A 71-year Old Man in the Street Just Days After Rejecting The WHO Treaty ~ Now in Emergency Brain Surgery 🙏
THE NEXT FEW HOURS ARE DECISIVE AS HE UNDERGOES EMERGENCY SURGERY. Life-threatening Injuries to the Head & Chest. The Suspect is Apprehended. The Evil is an Obvious Warning Sign for Other Nations!
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Addendum today: Initial reports of a gunshot wound to the head and chest are incorrect. He was shot 5 times in the abdomen, arm(s), and leg(s) and had 3 1/2 hours of surgery, afterwards regaining consciousness.
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has been shot and wounded and is in a life-threatening condition.
Mr Fico was shot as he greeted crowds in front of a cultural community centre in the town of Handlova, where a government meeting had been held.
Several shots were heard, before his security detail bundled him into a nearby car.
The Slovak leader has been taken to hospital and his alleged assailant detained by police.
"A crowd was waiting outside [the cultural centre] and one of them started shooting," said journalist Juraj Bury, who was inside the building at the time of the attack at about 14:30 (12:30 GMT) in Handlova, about 180km (112 miles) north-east of the capital Bratislava.
A witness told the Dennik N website that she heard three or four shots and saw Mr Fico fall to the ground. She saw wounds to his head and chest.
Three of the prime minister's guards quickly helped him up from beside a bench and rushed him into a car. Local reports say he was then airlifted by helicopter to a nearby hospital before he was later flown to another hospital in Banska Bystrica, east of Handlova.
In a message posted later on Mr Fico's Facebook page, his staff said he was shot a number of times and was "currently in a life-threatening condition". They said he was being transported to Banksa Bystrica as he needed urgent surgery. The next few hours would be decisive, the message said.
A video showed several civilian bystanders as well as guards detaining the suspect just outside the cultural centre in Handlova. The man, wearing a pale-blue shirt, was then seen sitting on the ground, his hands tied behind his back. The BBC has not yet verified the footage.
Local media have said the suspect is a 71-year-old writer and political activist, although these reports have not been confirmed.
In her initial reaction to the shooting, Slovakia's outgoing president Zuzana Caputova said she was "utterly shocked by today's brutal" attack on the prime minister. She condemned the attack in the "strongest possible terms" and wished him strength to recover.
In a statement to media later, Ms Caputova said that something "so serious had happened that we can't even realise it yet".
"The hateful rhetoric we witness in society leads to hateful acts. Please, let's stop it," she added.
Mr Fico, 59, returned to power in Slovakia after elections last September, at the head of a populist-nationalist coalition.
His first few months as prime minister have proved highly contentious politically. In January he halted military aid to Ukraine and last month pushed through plans to abolish public broadcaster RTVS.
Thousands of Slovaks have protested against the proposed reform of the public broadcaster in recent weeks. However, a planned opposition-led demonstration was called off on Wednesday as news of the shooting emerged.
Parliament was sitting at the time of the attack and Slovak media reported that a party colleague of Mr Fico's shouted at opposition MPs, accusing them of stoking the attack.
President-elect Peter Pellegrini, who is a political ally of Mr Fico's, said he was horrified to hear of the attack and also blamed the shooting on recent political divisions.
Describing the attack as an "unprecedented threat to Slovak democracy" he said people did not have to agree on everything, but there were many ways to express disagreement democratically and legally.
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You are the God of All Creation, All-Powerful and Mighty. We gather together in prayer for Prime Minister Fico, and ask you to guide the doctors and nurses to best remove all bullets, preserve blood loss, and get him out off the operating room as soon as possible.
Guide his recovery to that which is miraculous! Help him move his fingers and toes, breath, and open his eyes. May he recover 100% to continue doing Your Work. We ask this in the Name of Jesus, the Name Above All Names. Amen. 🙏
Many African leaders were “suddenly died” after rejecting the whole Covid bs.
Wow. Is this what the U.N/WHO has devolved into now? Open gangsterism??
THIS is exactly why these thugs should NEVER be given power.
If they can do this to a sitting Prime Minister, then all bets are off against the world citizenry.