Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has been released to recuperate at home but faces a long and difficult road to recovery after suffering five intestinal injuries in the assassination attempt.
The director of the hospital where Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico spent the past two weeks after being shot in what is not yet determined to be a terrorist attack has confirmed that the prime minister was discharged last night and returned home. Fico was transferred from the FD Roosevelt Banská Bystrica Hospital to his apartment in Bratislava on Thursday afternoon. Local media reported increased police and security activity around Fico’s city apartment.
In a statement this morning, the hospital director thanked the Prime Minister for being a “disciplined patient” but said he faced a long road to recovery – rehabilitation would not be easy or quick, she said.
Fico was released from hospital 15 days after being shot several times in what appeared to be an assassination attempt.
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So far, little concrete information has been released about the injuries sustained by Mr Fico after he was shot, but it has recently emerged that bullets, or at least shrapnel, struck the Slovak prime minister in the abdomen, lower back, arms and legs. The bullet to the abdomen was the most deadly, reportedly piercing his small intestine in five places.
Fico’s health is improving as doctors predicted, and he is now able to eat and walk with the help of a cane.
Earlier this week, his government colleague Eric Kalyniak gave the first specific details about Fico’s injuries, including that he was shot in the gut. He said: “I was there. [at the hospital]I spoke to the doctors and they told me that it only took a few millimeters to be fatal. The impact was enough to penetrate my small intestine five times, but the doctors performed a miracle.”
As previously reported, the suspect was arrested at the scene, later confessed and agreed to cooperate with police in their investigation. According to police reports, the suspect, identified as left-wing poet and activist July Sintura, told police that he wanted to shoot and oust Fico, but that he did not intend to kill him.
The reason for this desire, he said, was his opposition to Fico’s policies, especially his government’s efforts to keep Slovakia out of the Ukrainian war. The perpetrators were said to have been very keen for military aid to be sent to Kiev. The investigation is ongoing, but
