Suspect in Slovak PM shooting faces charge of carrying out terrorist attack


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  • Thursday, 04 Jul 2024

FILE PHOTO: Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico addresses the nation for the first time after the shooting, before the EU Parliamentary Election, in Bratislava, Slovakia, in this screengrab taken from a social media video released on June 5, 2024. Robert Fico via Facebook/via REUTERS/File Photo

(Reuters) - The man detained over the shooting of Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico will face prosecution on the charge of carrying out a terrorist attack, Slovakia's general prosecutor said on Thursday.

Fico is recovering after being shot four times at close range when he greeted supporters at a government meeting in the central Slovak town of Handlova in mid-May. That left him needing hours of surgery.

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