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Slovakia's populist prime minister shot in assassination attempt
- consumer451 2y agoBackground information on the shooter: https://twitter.com/panyiszabolcs/status/1790789652078526939 https://twitter.com/panyiszabolcs/status/1790789652078526939
- worstspotgain 2y agoI was wondering if the pro-democracy front had started borrowing pro-Russian tactics, but nope: > reported assailant, writer Juraj Cintula, was associated with pro-Russian paramilitary group Dog bites dog, not much to see here I guess?
- consumer451 2y ago> Dog bites dog, not much to see here I guess? Well, the fact that we have "dogs" shooting each other within the civilized confines of the EU is quite notable I would say. When was the the last time that an EU politician has been shot? Has it ever happened since the EU was formed?
- sterlind 2y agoOlof Palme in 1986? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Olof_Palme https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Olof_Palme
- worstspotgain 2y agoWell that would be pre-Maastricht treaty (EEC < EU). If we include the EEC period there's plenty to choose from, e.g. all the work of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Faction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Faction and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Brigades https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Brigades In the EU period I remember the Foreign Minister of Sweden and some UK MPs pre-Brexit.
- worstspotgain 2y agoI should have added an /s to my last sentence. The story is newsworthy on its own right. I emphasized how much more newsworthy it could have been had the shooter been pro-democracy, i.e. "Man bites dog."
- pvaldes 2y agoMaybe, but the motivation is unclear. Lone wolves killing somebody with such wide difference in status just because, without a expected big reward to make worth the risk... is not so common. Can't fall to remind the scene in Batman where the Joker steals a bank ordering secretly each member in the team to kill its sidekick, just to be killed later by the next member in the team. I wonder if Cintula will fall victim of an unfortunate accident in a few weeks. Putin allies knowing things that could be embarrassing or dangerous seem to be rewarded for all this efforts, with a seat in the special program to close the lose ends. Enemies and friends, all the same. The list is not short, starting with Prighozin https://www.euronews.com/2022/09/22/accidental-defenestration-and-murder-suicides-too-common-among-russian-oligarchs-and-putin https://www.euronews.com/2022/09/22/accidental-defenestratio...
- sandspar 2y agoIt seems like this involves highly local politics with "sides" that don't cleave to the normal sides we outsiders understand. Am I wrong?
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- barfbagginus 2y agoWell, what we normally expect in the States is a right wing shooter going after a left wing target. But here the target was a right wing politician, and the shooter was a right wing shooter. So it's actually kind of a funny change in scenery, in a way! But maybe a little baffling, yes!
- consumer451 2y agoThis is the most in-depth, seemingly unbiased report that I have read on the Slovak PM and his attacker at this time. https://goodauthority.org/news/slovakia-prime-minister-fico-shot/ https://goodauthority.org/news/slovakia-prime-minister-fico-...