Slovakia PM shooting: Friend of suspect recalls laughing with him just days before assassination attempt

Mile L'Udovit is leaning on the front door of his apartment block when we meet, just as he has done so often since moving in four decades ago. He was one of the original tenants of the tatty building and so was his dear friend Juraj Cintula - the man charged with trying to kill Slovakia's prime minister. Mile is at once shocked, bemused, appalled and bewildered. 'He's a good friend,' he tells me. Both men are 71 years old and talked often. 'He was a decent, polite man.

' He shakes his head and gestures up to Cintula's apartment on the top of the building. 'He will either die or get a life sentence. It's going to be so hard for his family.' Cintula has not yet been officially identified as the suspect, but it's common knowledge in Slovakia.

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