A court in Slovakia on Tuesday (October 21, 2025) convicted a man of a terror attack and sentenced him to 21 years in prison over last year’s attempted assassination of the country’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico.
The shooting and the trial have shaken this small, European Union and NATO-member country, where Mr. Fico has long been a divisive figure, criticised for straying from Slovakia’s pro-Western path and aligning it closer to Russia.
Juraj Cintula opened fire on Mr.
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