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The assassination of the Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico today outside the House of Culture in the city of Handlova, where the Prime Minister was holding a meeting with his supporters, is not the only one.
In recent years, other political leaders have been the target of armed attacks, or even killed.
Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, 2022
On July 8, 2022, former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was attacked with a gun during an election rally in Nara (west). Hit by two bullets in the neck, he was pronounced dead a few hours later.
His suspected killer, arrested shortly after the incident, accused him of his alleged ties to the Unification Church, nicknamed the "Moon Sect," which is accused of exerting heavy financial pressure on its followers in Japan.
The heir to a political dynasty, Abe holds the record for longest tenure as prime minister in Japan, which he held from 2006-2007, then from 2012 to 2020.
Argentine Vice President Cristina Kirchner, 2022
On September 1, 2022, a man pointed a gun at Argentine Vice President Cristina Kirchner's head while she was with supporters outside her home in Buenos Aires, but thankfully the gun was not fired.
After being arrested, the aggressor said that his action came "from the situation in the country".
Former president (2007-2015), Cristina Kirchner, was sentenced at the end of 2022 to six years in prison for fraud and corruption, which referred to the private financing of the attack "identified with the government" of her predecessor, the liberal Mauricio Macri (2015-2019).
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, 2022
In November of the same year, former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan was shot in the leg while the truck he was traveling in was passing through Wazirabad (east).
In a video released by police, the attacker said he attacked him because he believed Imran Khan was against Islam.
Haitian President Jovenel Moise, 2021
Haitian President Jovenel Moise was shot and killed in the middle of the night on July 7, 2021, at his private residence in Port-au-Prince by an armed commando consisting of 28 people posing as agents of the United States Agency Against Drugs.
Three of the attackers were killed and about twenty individuals, including 18 former Colombian soldiers, were arrested. An American investigation revealed that two men, at the head of a security company in Miami, had planned to kidnap Jovenel Moïse to replace him with an American-Haitian.
Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, 2018
Former far-right Brazilian president (2019-2022), Jair Bolsonaro, was stabbed in the stomach in September 2018 and seriously injured during a tour in Minas Gerais (south-east), during the presidential election campaign.
He underwent several operations and managed to survive after his condition appeared to be life-threatening.
In 2023 to 2030 he was tried for denigrating without evidence the reliability of the electronic voting system used for the 2022 presidential election, where he lost to Lula.
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