The man being held in custody over the attempted assassination of Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico reportedly had political motives for carrying out the shooting.Hours after Fico was airlifted to hospital following the shooting in the town of Handlova, Slovakian media outlet Hlavný Denník identified the alleged gunman as Juraj Cintula, a writer and poet from Levice in the southern-central part of the country.
Panyi also noted how the group had links with the Russian motorcycle gang the Night Wolves, which is closely aligned with Russian president Vladimir Putin.An image on Slovenskí Branci's Facebook page from January 2016 showed Cintula standing next to men in military fatigues holding flags, one of which was Slovakian.
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