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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...