Slovakia’s president said she was shocked at the news that the country’s prime minister, Robert Fico, had been seriously injured in a shooting.
Zuzana Caputova pleaded for people to ‘stop hateful rhetoric’ during a press conference from the presidential palace in Bratislava.
Fico, 59, was hit in the stomach after several shots were fired outside the House of Culture in the town of Handlová
Slovakian prime minister Robert Fico injured in shooting
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