- The process with Juraj Cintul continues with interrogations at the ŠTS.
- Cintula faces an indictment of a terrorist attack.
- He shot at Robert Fico during the government meeting.
- The defendant claims that he did not intend to kill him.
- There are different views on the legal qualification of the act.
Witnesses continues after a month at the Specialized Criminal Court (STS), the Banská Bystrica workplace sharply monitored process With the defendant bomber Juraj Cintul, who last May 15 in Handlová shot at Prime Minister Robert Fico (Smer-SD). On Tuesday, the third hearing day, the members of the Office for the Protection of Constitutional Officials and Diplomatic Missions who were at the shooting will testify. One of the summoned security guards did not come to court because he has been on a mission abroad for six months and is to stay there for another six months.
Pensioner Juraj Cintula faces an indictment for a particularly serious crime of the terrorist attack committed on a protected person and threatens to life imprisonment. According to the defendant Alyasry, the defendant does not admit such a punishment. Prior to the Senate of the STS in July, he stressed that the position of his client is justified, but it is not possible to agree with the legal qualifications and thus terrorism.
Juraj Cintula led anger towards the injured Fico, which he repeated in the first days of the process and not to the whole government. “I have never felt hatred against the Prime Minister, anger yes, especially when he called the cultural community the spiritual homeless,” he said then.
He decided to harm Fico’s health so that he was no longer able to perform the Prime Minister’s function. He chose a government meeting in Handlova. The moment Fico headed among the sympathizers, he pulled out the weapon he had in legal possession and fired five times. As the defendant claims, he intentionally shot down, he did not want to kill him.
According to the prosecutor, the defendant changed the rhetoric only after the act was re -qualified. Juraj Cintula originally faced charges of a particularly serious crime of the assassination committed at the stage of the experiment. In July 2024, there was a change in the legal qualification to a particularly serious crime of the terrorist attack where the rate of life is lifetime. During the interrogation in the pre -trial proceedings, he claimed that he disagreed with the policy of the current government, considered it Judas against the EU.
