Juraj Cintula, center, is escorted to the Specialized Criminal Court in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia Tuesday, July 8, 2025, for a trial over last year’s attempted assassination of Slovakia’s ...

Cintula is accused of shooting Fico on 15 May 2024, as the prime minister greeted supporters following a government meeting in the town of Handlová, located 140 kilometres northeast of the capital.

BANSKA BYSTRICA, Slovakia (Reuters) -The man who shot and seriously wounded Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico last year railed against Fico as he was led in shackles into court on Tuesday, at the ...

Juraj Cintula shot nationalist, Kremlin-friendly Fico four times at close range after a government meeting in the central Slovak mining town of Handlova on May 15, 2024, leaving him seriously wounded.

A man has gone on trial for last year’s attempted assassination of Slovakia’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico. The trial began Tuesday in Banská Bystrica, where 72-year-old Juraj Cintula ...