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Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico attends a press conference during a Special European Council Meeting on April 18, 2024 in Brussels, Belgium.
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Slovakia's populist Prime Minister Robert Fico on Wednesday was injured in a shooting and taken to hospital, according to multiple media reports.
CNBC could not independently verify this information. Slovakian President Zuzana Čaputová "strongly" condemned the "brutal and ruthless attack" in a Google translated Facebook post, without supplying details of the nature of the attack.
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