World Courant
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was transferred from a hospital within the heart of the nation two weeks in the past after being critically injured in a taking pictures.
The hospital within the central metropolis of Banska Bystrica stated he was now receiving “dwelling nursing care”. In response to studies, he was taken by airplane to the capital Bratislava and brought dwelling to proceed his lengthy street to restoration.
The 59-year-old was left preventing for his life after he was shot 4 instances at shut vary within the central city of Handlova on Could 15 as he greeted supporters after a authorities assembly.
Mr Fico is claimed to have undergone quite a lot of operations.
The top of Roosevelt Hospital, Miriam Lapunikova, paid tribute to her medical colleagues “for a job nicely performed” and thanked Mr Fico for being a “disciplined affected person”.
“We want the Prime Minister loads of energy and, above all, optimistic power throughout his bodily and time-consuming rehabilitation,” she wrote on Fb.
Slovak tv reported that he had flown to Bratislava by helicopter early Thursday night. There was an elevated safety presence round his flat in Bratislava’s diplomatic quarter, not removed from town heart.
The veteran politician, who has been prime minister for greater than ten of the previous eighteen years, returned to energy final September on the head of a populist-nationalist coalition.
Slovakia has develop into more and more polarized in latest months and the assault has solely elevated tensions.
His alleged attacker, named by native media as 71-year-old Juraj Cintula, has been taken into custody on expenses of tried homicide.
He’s at present present process psychiatric remedy and if convicted, he may spend the remainder of his life in jail.
