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Would-be assassin given 21-year sentence for shooting Slovak PM Robert Fico

A court in Slovakia sentenced on Tuesday the man who shot and injured Prime Minister Robert Fico in May 2024 to 21 years in prison on terrorism charges.

Juraj Cintula, 72, targeted the populist Slovak leader on 15 May last year after a government meeting in Handlová, located around 140 kilometres northeast of the capital of Bratislava.

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