Suspect in shooting of Slovakia PM Robert Fico described as a ‘friendly, helpful neighbour’
- Slovakia police have charged 71-year-old writer Juraj Cintula with attempted murder
- Robert Fico sustained multiple gunshot wounds at close range in an attack Wednesday
At a block of flats in Levice, a small town in central Slovakia, passers-by glanced quickly at the windows of a flat on the seventh floor as police came and went.
The suspected attacker, who has been charged with attempted murder and named in Slovak media as Juraj Cintula, has lived for decades in the flat, according to his neighbour, Ludovit Mile.
“He must have gone crazy,” said Mile, who spoke of a “friendly, helpful neighbour” he has known since 1983 and last spoke to on Monday – just two days before his alleged attack on Prime Minister Robert Fico.
“We all have our political opinions, but he never spoke about his forcefully,” said Mile, although he admitted that he was “against certain measures taken by the government” which came to power last year.