Now to Europe and the shocking assassination plot caught on
camera this morning.
Slovakia's head of state fighting for his life after an
apparent assassination attempt.
Prime Minister Robert Fico greeting supporters outside a Cultural Center
when this happened.
5 Gunshots ringing out, hitting Feco in the abdomen.
The gunman immediately wrestled to the ground and arrested Fico's
knees buckling,
his security detail rushing him to the hospital.
It's a political assault, his Deputy Prime Minister saying there
was a clear political motivation for the attack.
Fico is a divisive figure in Slovakia and beyond,
winning an election last fall on a pro Russia anti
America message and halting weapons deliveries to Ukraine at the
start of his fourth term.
The attack the latest in a string of assassinations and
attempts in recent years.
In January, a man stabbed South Korea's opposition party leader
in the neck,
but he survived, and in 2022,
former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan was fatally shot
with a homemade gun outside a church.
As for that attack in Slovakia,
the gunman is reportedly a 71 year old writer from
that country.