Juraj Cintulathe alleged perpetrator of the taking pictures that left the Slovak Prime Minister severely injured, Robert Ficopromoted a platform in opposition to violence in 2016, was linked to an ultra-nationalist and pro-Russian paramilitary group, and has criticized the Roma neighborhood.
“The world is filled with violence and weapons, as if folks had gone loopy”the shooter mentioned then, Jarek Cintulain a message recorded when launching his platform.
Cintula, 71, shot Fico a number of occasions on Wednesday when he was leaving a gathering of the Council of Ministers held within the city of Don’t be concernedthe place the alleged attacker labored years in the past in a mine.
He was additionally employed as a sworn guard at a safety firm, and had a weapons license.
Extra just lately he has devoted himself to poetry, in a literary group in his hometown of Leftand political activism.
In 2016, when he launched the Motion in opposition to violenceCintula asserted that Slovak democracy was threatened by the privatization of state property after the autumn of the communist dictatorship and that, he denounced, they handed into the arms of “oligarchs and wealthy individuals who purchase political representatives.”
In his analysis of the hazard that, in his opinion, threatens democracy, he urged “to take to the streets once more, fill the squares, present energy however not violence.”
Prorusian militias
The Hungarian investigative journalist Panyi Szabolcsassures that Fico’s attacker is linked to Slovak Brancia Slovak pro-Russian paramilitary group.
Panyi is a member of VSquarea prestigious journalistic analysis heart, very lively in denouncing Russia’s affect and hyperlinks with ultranationalist governments corresponding to Slovakia or Hungary.
In a 2016 message on Slovenskí Branci’s Fb web page, Cintula may be seen taking part in an occasion by that group, now defunct, which sympathized with the Slovak neo-Nazi politician. Marian Kotlebasentenced in 2020 to 4 years in jail.
In that Fb message, Cintula calls for the existence of armed militias that defend Europeans from the arrival of “tons of of 1000’s of migrants.”
The alleged aggressor has revealed two books, one in all them with assaults in opposition to the Roma neighborhood in Slovakia, historically topic to insurance policies of discrimination and segregation.
DUHA, the literary membership to which the attacker belongs, has issued a press release wherein it “categorically distances itself from the habits, opinions and actions of Juraj Cintula” and reveals its indignation at his “brutal act.”
They blame the liberal opposition
Regardless of these hyperlinks with nationalist and pro-Russian actions in Cintula, a number of members of Fico’s Authorities have accused the liberal and pro-European opposition of being accountable for the assault for having heated up the political debate on account of their criticism of the Authorities.
Since he returned to the place of prime minister final October, for the third time since 2006, Fico and his authorities of left-wing and far-right nationalists have eradicated the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Workplace, which was investigating members of his social gathering, and proposed dissolving the general public radio and tv station. , whom he accuses of not being patriotic sufficient.
The truth is, after being arrested, Cintula justified his assault on Fico by saying that he didn’t agree with the Authorities’s insurance policies and reported his “assaults” to the RTVS.
Fico has additionally discontinued navy support that Slovakia was giving to Ukraine to assist defend itself in opposition to the Russian invasion and has advocated for a ceasefire with Russia, even at the price of Ukraine accepting territorial losses.
He additionally maintains positions in opposition to immigration, journalists and the European Union, similar to these of the Hungarian prime minister, the ultranationalist Viktor Orbán.
These measures have provoked large anti-government protests, inspired by the progressive and liberal opposition. EFE (I)
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