Slovakia\u2019s health minister said Saturday the prognosis for Prime Minister Robert Fico was \u201cpositive\u201d after an assassination attempt as a court put the suspected gunman in pre-trial detention.
\nFico has been in hospital since Wednesday when a lone gunman shot him four times, including in the abdomen.
\nHe underwent a five-hour surgery on Wednesday and another surgery on Friday, both at a hospital in the central Slovak city of Banska Bystrica.
\n\u201cYesterday\u2019s surgery, which took two hours, contributed to a positive prognosis of the prime minister\u2019s health condition,\u201d Health Minister Zuzana Dolinkova said.
\n\u201cThe prime minister\u2019s condition is stable, but despite this it\u2019s still serious,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
The suspected gunman, identified by Slovak media as 71-year-old poet Juraj Cintula, was placed in pre-trial detention by a special penal court in Pezinok northeast of the capital Bratislava on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The decision followed a request from a prosecutor made Friday. Cintula had been charged with a premeditated murder attempt earlier.<\/p>\n
Fico was shot as he was walking to greet supporters after a government meeting in the central mining town of Handlova.<\/p>\n
Interior Minister Matus Sutaj Estok said earlier that if one of the shots \u201cwent just a few centimetres higher, it would have hit the prime minister\u2019s liver.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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