“For myself, I won’t forgive them, any of them, for what happened today. But I don’t wish that anything bad happens to any of them. Let them live their lives in safety, and finally discover some peace and reconciliation in themselves and in their bubbles.”
Meanwhile, Deputy Speaker of Parliament Ľuboš Blaha, from Fico’s Smer party, claimed without providing evidence that the man who allegedly shot the PM had been politically active at events run by the opposition PS. “We [ruling coalition MPs] are the biggest next targets,” he said.
On Wednesday, after interrupting a session of parliament to announce “the Slovak prime minister has been shot,” Blaha added to opposition MPs: “This is your work.”
Another deputy speaker, Andrej Danko of the far-right Slovak National Party (SNS), blamed the attempted assassination on independent media. “Are you happy now?” he asked. “I still can’t believe that someone in society would be willing to cross that line.”
Speaking at a press conference, Danko referred to some journalists as “disgusting pigs” and said that his SNS party saw the attack on Fico as the start of a political war. “I believe that with Robert Fico we’ll handle the situation, but there will be some changes here.”
The country’s media, for their part, signed a common online statement condemning the attack on Fico as “the path of hatred, which we cannot allow to take over Slovakia, because it will send us to the darkest place on the map.