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 ...

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — A man went on trial Tuesday over last year’s attempted assassination of Slovakia’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico. Juraj Cintula, appearing in court in the ...

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, 72, acknowledges shooting the prime minister in May last year but denies intending to kill him. Prosecutors call it an act of terrorism.

A 72-year-old poet said he had shot and wounded Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico to defend "free culture" as he went on trial Tuesday more than a year after the shock attack. Juraj Cintula shot ...