Juraj Cintula, 72, admits shooting the prime minister in May last year but denies wanting to kill him. Prosecutors describe ...

Juraj Cintula is accused of opening fire on Fico on May 15, 2024, as the prime minister greeted supporters following a ...

Juraj Cintula, 72, acknowledges shooting the prime minister in May last year but denies intending to kill him. Prosecutors call it an act of terrorism.

A 72-year-old poet said he had shot and wounded Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico to defend "free culture" as he went on ...

Slovakian media named the suspect as Juraj Cintula, a 71-year-old poet who was a member of the pro-Russian paramilitary group Slovenskí Branci.

A man went on trial Tuesday over last year’s attempted assassination of Slovakia’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico. Juraj Cintula, appearing in court in the central city of Banská ...

Juraj Cintula shot nationalist, Kremlin-friendly Fico four times at close range after a government meeting in the central Slovak mining town of Handlova on May 15, 2024, leaving him seriously wounded.

Juraj Cintula, center, is escorted to the Specialized Criminal Court in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia Tuesday, July 8, 2025, for a trial over last year’s attempted assassination of Slovakia’s ...