CT scan performed on Slovak PM Fico while he recuperates from attempted assassination

As he recovers from being shot four times during an attempted assassination last week, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico got a follow-up abdominal CT scan and is still aware and communicative, according to medical professionals treating him on Tuesday.

“Simultaneously, additional measures are being implemented to enhance his medical state,” the hospital in Banska Bystrica, central Slovakia, stated in a press release.

The attack on Wednesday highlighted the severe political differences in Slovak society and was the first significant attempt on the life of a political leader in Europe in more than 20 years.

Fico’s life was no longer in urgent danger, according to Deputy Prime Minister Robert Kalinak’s statement on Sunday, but his illness prevented him from being transferred to a hospital in the nation’s capital, Bratislava.

On Sunday, Interior Minister Matus Sutaj Estok announced the formation of an inquiry team to determine whether the suspect, as previously thought, had acted alone.

Prosecutors have named the 71-year-old suspect as Juraj C., a former security guard at a shopping center and the author of three poetry books.

According to Estok, investigators will try to ascertain whether he was a member of a group of individuals who had urged one another to carry out an assassination.