National media have reported that the Prime Minister of Slovakia, Robert Fico, was shot in public by a 71-year-old poet and member of the Pro-Western Progressive Party, Juraj Cintula.
Update (1220ET): Video of the precise moment PM Fico was shot down and the shooter's identity was made public by national media has surfaced on various social media platforms.
Several local media reports, citing visuals and witnesses at the scene, report that the man who shot the Slovak PM is a writer and activist named Juraj Cintula.
Although Cintula's motivation is still unknown, he is reportedly a member of the socially liberal and pro-Western "Progressive Slovakia" party.
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