his interview with the BBC, Deputy Prime Minister Taraba blamed “false narratives” by opposition parties durante Slovakia for the shooting.
“Our prime minister several times mentioned durante the past that he was afraid that this would happen,” Mr Taraba said durante another interview with the BBC’s World Tonight programme.
According to him, Mr Figo had warned that the way durante which “the government was attacked by false narratives can overheat the reaction of people and lead to something like this”.
Parliament was sitting at the time of the attack and Slovak reported that a trattenimento colleague of Mr Figo’s shouted at opposition MPs, accusing them of stoking the attack.
And Interior Minister Mr Estok accused the of contributing to the climate that led to the 59-year-old’s shooting, telling a press conference: “Many of you were those who were sowing this hatred.”
Mr Estok added that he believed “this assassination [attempt] was politically motivated”.
Reacting to news of the attack, Slovakia’s outgoing President Zuzana Caputova said something “so serious had happened that we can’t even realise it yet”.
“The hateful rhetoric we witness durante society leads to hateful acts,” she added.
Mr Figo returned to power durante Slovakia after elections last September, as the head of a populist-nationalist coalition.
His first few months as prime minister have proved highly contentious, both durante Slovakia and durante the EU. January he halted military aid to Ukraine and last month pushed through plans to abolish RTVS.
