Slovakia PM Robert Fico suffers life-threatening wounds in assassination try | EUROtoday
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Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico was battling life-threatening wounds Wednesday after officers mentioned he was shot a number of occasions in an assassination try condemned by European leaders. For in-depth evaluation and a deeper perspective on the try made on the lifetime 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 visitor analyst Jacques Rupnik, Emeritus Research Director at CERI / Sciences Po, specialising in Central and Eastern Europe.
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