Slovakia’s prime minister, Robert Fico, was in enhancing well being on Saturday morning, the nation’s deputy minister mentioned, after having a second surgical procedure on the injuries he sustained when he was shot in an assassination try on Wednesday.
“A number of miracles occurred,” the deputy minister, Robert Kalinak, informed reporters. He added of Mr. Fico, “He’s aware, with all the restrictions of this severe damage.”
Mr. Kalinak made the remarks in entrance of the F.D. Roosevelt College Hospital within the central metropolis of Banska Bystrica, the place Mr. Fico was taken after he was shot a number of occasions by a lone gunman.
Earlier Saturday morning, in a distinct a part of the nation, the 71-year-old suspect within the capturing, a person recognized by the authorities solely as Juraj C., was introduced to a choose, who ordered that he would stay in custody till trial.
The capturing, which occurred within the city of Handlova, within the heart of Slovakia, was probably the most severe assault on a European chief in a long time.
Mr. Fico was shot a number of occasions, however Mr. Kalinak defined throughout a tv interview on Saturday that one of many wounds posed the best threat to Mr. Fico’s well being.
On Friday, Mr. Kalinak mentioned, docs eliminated contaminated tissue from the realm of that wound within the second emergency surgical procedure Mr. Fico has had for the reason that assault.
Due to the severity of his accidents, Mr. Kalinak mentioned, Mr. Fico will be unable to be transferred to Bratislava, Slovakia’s capital and largest metropolis, for a minimum of a couple of extra days.
Additionally on Saturday morning, in Pezinok, a metropolis in western Slovakia, some 12 miles from Bratislava, Slovak and worldwide reporters waited exterior a courtroom constructing whereas particular police forces secured the environment earlier than bringing within the suspect for an look earlier than a choose.
After a closed listening to, the choose ordered that the suspect would stay in custody till the authorities can cost and check out him.
“The explanation for detention is the concern of attainable escape, in addition to the continuation of felony exercise,” mentioned Katarina Kudjakova, a spokeswoman for the courtroom.
