On Could 15, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was shot 4 occasions at shut vary as he greeted supporters after a authorities assembly within the central city of Handlova.
Fico, who survived the assassination try, was taken to a hospital in a close-by metropolis after the capturing, the place he underwent two prolonged surgical procedures.
Two witnesses, Marie Adrian and Anna Ravn, advised newspaper BT that they’d seen Frederiksen arrive on the sq. whereas they have been sitting by a close-by fountain simply earlier than 6pm (1600 GMT).
“A person got here by in the wrong way and gave her a tough shove on the shoulder, inflicting her to fall to the aspect,” the 2 ladies advised the newspaper.
They added that whereas it was a “robust push”, Frederiksen didn’t hit the bottom.
“CONFUSED”
In keeping with the witnesses, the prime minister then sat down at a close-by cafe.
They described the person as tall and slim, and mentioned he had tried to rush away however had not received far earlier than being grabbed and pushed to the bottom by males in fits.
One other witness, Kasper Jorgensen, advised newspaper Ekstra Bladet that he had seen the person after he was tackled to the bottom, saying that one among what he presumed to be a part of the safety service had put a knee on the person’s again.
“That they had pacified him, and as he lay there, he seemed confused and a bit dazed,” Jorgensen advised the newspaper.
“DESPICABLE ACT”
EU chief Charles Michel and European Parliament President Roberta Metsola on Friday slammed the assault on Frederiksen.
Metsola urged the Danish head of presidency to “maintain robust”, whereas including in a put up on X that “violence has no place in politics”.
Michel in flip mentioned he was “outraged by the assault”.
“I strongly condemn this cowardly act of aggression,” the European Council president mentioned in a separate put up on X.
