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Excerpt from www.lokmattimes.com
Bratislava, June 6 Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has said here that he did not believe last month’s assassination attempt against him was carried out by a lone madman.
The Prime Minister on Wednesday claimed that an activist belonging to the Slovak opposition had tried to assassinate him because of his political views, in an extract of a speech posted on social media, adding that “I have no reason to believe that it was an attack by a lone madman”.
This is Fico’s first public appearance after being attacked by a gunman on May 15 in the town of Handlova in central Slovakia. According to Fico, he has been publicly warning of the probability of an assassination attempt against a government politician in Slovakia for several months, Xinhua news agency reported.