Slovak PM shooting suspect named as 71-year-old writer and poet | World News

A person charged with tried homicide following the taking pictures of Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has been named as 71-year-old Juraj Cintula.

The pensioner, from the city of Levice in western Slovakia, is claimed to be a author and poet.

In one among his poems he describes how he grew as much as be somebody who strikes again, they are saying.

Eight years in the past, nonetheless, he initiated the creation of a motion referred to as In opposition to Violence, and printed an announcement about it on-line.

Cintula beforehand labored as a safety guard, throughout which era he was reportedly badly overwhelmed by a person in a store.

In the meantime, one among his neighbours mentioned he was “shocked” concerning the taking pictures of the prime minister.

‘Implausible man’

“We had no issues with them. He’s a improbable man. I can not clarify it,” the neighbour mentioned.

“I knew him and his spouse as effectively. They have been nice folks – pensioners. His spouse was a college trainer – they used to go for a stroll – nice household.”

Requested whether or not it was clear that Cintula had a gun, the neighbour added: “He did not inform me. Police ought to test outdated folks [and carry out psychological tests].”

Cintula based a literary membership in Levice and is the creator of a number of poetry collections, native media reported.

He has additionally written a novel referred to as The Message Of Sacrifice and is claimed to be a member of the Society of Slovak Writers.

Mr Fico – who’s combating for his life in hospital after Wednesday’s assassination try – was shot a number of occasions within the city of Handlova, round 85 miles northeast of the capital Bratislava, the place he was assembly supporters.

Slovakia‘s inside minister, Matus Sutaj Estok, instructed reporters that Cintula was a “lone wolf”.

The suspect “acted alone”, Mr Estok mentioned.

Talking beforehand, he mentioned the try on Mr Fico’s life was “politically motivated”.

On Wednesday, he mentioned an preliminary investigation discovered the suspect had a “clear political motivation” for finishing up the taking pictures, including the “perpetrator’s determination was born intently after the presidential election”.

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President-elect Peter Pellegrini, an ally of Mr Fico, gained a fiercely contested presidential election final month.

The alleged gunman fired 5 bullets on the 59-year-old prime minister as he greeted supporters following a authorities assembly in a former coal mining city in central Slovakia.

What have those that knew the suspect mentioned?

Information outlet Aktuality.sk cited the suspect’s son as saying his father was the authorized holder of a gun licence.

“I’ve completely no concept what my father supposed, what he deliberate, what occurred,” it quoted the son as saying.

He mentioned all he may say about his father’s views concerning the prime minister was that he didn’t vote for him.

He additionally mentioned his father was not a psychiatric affected person.

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A member of the Rainbow Literary Membership in Levice instructed Reuters she knew the suspect.

She mentioned he was one of many membership’s founding members and had been its chairman for a time.

In an announcement, the membership condemned the assault and mentioned that as a strictly apolitical group it had revoked the suspected attacker’s membership with “rapid impact”.