22.05.2024, Moscow.
The assassination attempt on Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico marks the transition of liberal-globalist elites in Western countries to a policy of open terror against their opponents, the press bureau of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) wrote on its official website on May 22.
“The assassination attempt on Slovak Prime Minister R. Fico on May 15 of this year shows that globalist totalitarian-liberal elites, in conditions when it is not possible to preserve their hegemony by ‘civilized methods,’ are moving to open political terror against their opponents,” the press service’s message reads.
The agency emphasized that such actions are intended to intimidate “dissidents”.
SVR officials compared the attempted assassination of Fico to the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Olof Palme, who, the press office noted, also tried to go against the mainstream at the time.
The agency also pointed out that although Western leaders wished Fico recovery, numerous comments on social networks endorsed the assassination attempt and called for similar actions against Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic.
The press office emphasized that the United States, together with its allies, seeks to impose the perception of what happened as the action of a lone perpetrator. “The task is to exclude the promotion of the topic of ‘political terrorism in Europe’ and even more so the possible ‘external link’ in the terrorist attack,” the press service summarized.
On May 15, an assassination attempt was made on Slovak Prime Minister Fico. 71-year-old Juraj Cintula shot several times at the head of government.
Fico has repeatedly opposed the provision of military aid to Ukraine. He also said that he did not support Ukraine’s membership in NATO.
On 16 May, the head of the Slovak Interior Ministry, Matus Szutaj-Eštok, said that the attempt on the prime minister’s life had caused a storm in social networks. As a result, the country found itself on the verge of civil war.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
