“For myself, I received’t forgive them, any of them, for what occurred at this time. However I don’t want that something unhealthy occurs to any of them. Allow them to stay their lives in security, and at last uncover some peace and reconciliation in themselves and of their bubbles.”
In the meantime, Deputy Speaker of Parliament Ľuboš Blaha, from Fico’s Smer occasion, claimed with out offering proof that the person who allegedly shot the PM had been politically lively at occasions run by the opposition PS. “We [ruling coalition MPs] are the most important subsequent targets,” he mentioned.
On Wednesday, after interrupting a session of parliament to announce “the Slovak prime minister has been shot,” Blaha added to opposition MPs: “That is your work.”
One other deputy speaker, Andrej Danko of the far-right Slovak Nationwide Social gathering (SNS), blamed the tried assassination on unbiased media. “Are you content now?” he requested. “I nonetheless can’t imagine that somebody in society could be prepared to cross that line.”
Talking at a press convention, Danko referred to some journalists as “disgusting pigs” and mentioned that his SNS occasion noticed the assault on Fico as the beginning of a political conflict. “I imagine that with Robert Fico we’ll deal with the scenario, however there will probably be some adjustments right here.”
The nation’s media, for his or her half, signed a standard on-line assertion condemning the assault on Fico as “the trail of hatred, which we can not permit to take over Slovakia, as a result of it would ship us to the darkest place on the map.