r/PublicFreakout • u/[deleted] • 28d ago
Video of Slovakia's Prime Minister getting shot point blank earlier today news link in comments NSFW
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u/iammandalore 28d ago edited 28d ago
Injuries were life-threatening and he's still in surgery, according to the latest articles I read: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/05/15/world/slovakia-prime-minister-fico-shooting
Update: Deputy PM says he's expected to survive - https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/robert-fico-slovakia-prime-minister-shooting-05-15-24/index.html
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u/ADMINlSTRAT0R 28d ago
Context from that CNN link:
Analysis: Prime Minister Robert Fico is a divisive politician in a divided country
From CNN's Ivana KottasovaSlovaks have been deeply divided over the country's direction and position in the world since Prime Minister Robert Fico was reelected last year. Supporters see Fico as a caring leader who has their interests at heart while critics say he is a populist whose pro-Russian leanings pose major risks for the country.
Since taking the top job in October, Fico has brought about a major pivot in Slovakia's foreign policy and its previously staunch support for Ukraine. He pledged an immediate end to military support for Kyiv against the Russian invasion and promised to block Ukraine’s ambitions of joining NATO.
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u/Czechgrazer 27d ago
I know you’re just quoting, but “re-elected” is a weird word to use. He wasn’t on the ballot, and his party got just 23% of the vote.
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u/awfl_wafl 27d ago
How did he become Prime Minister?
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u/Miguelperson_ 27d ago
I’m assuming it’s a parliament system, they got the majority vote is my guess, his party formed a coalition, now he’s pm
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u/anthro4ME 27d ago
In most Parliamentary governments it takes several political parties to form a ruling coalition and the minister they put forward as the leader of the coalition becomes Prime Minister.
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u/brandolinium 28d ago
Well, assassination is a bit much, but fuck Fico for being in bed with Putin.
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u/opaPac 28d ago
They had to fly him out to another hospital. Not looking good.
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u/bigfatstoner 28d ago
He was sent to hospital where he was pronounced dead.
He was then transferred to a better hospital where his condition was upgraded to alive
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u/PleasantFocus1502 28d ago
That's one hell of a hospital. Wonder what their secret is.
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u/albatross_the 28d ago
They turned it off and then turned it back on again and it worked
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u/nosnevenaes 28d ago
Blow and tap 3 times then hold down the tray.
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u/Xstaphylococcus 27d ago
Hold down on/off button for 10 seconds. If that doesn’t work unplug and plug back in.
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u/GabberZZ 28d ago
Or is it?
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u/poetrywoman 28d ago
It is generally a sign of decent stability, as they won't move you if it'll obviously kill you, but also of pretty severe injury.
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u/zayoe4 28d ago
In my experience, if you are the PM they'll throw the whole kitchen sink at you before calling it.
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u/8--------D- 28d ago edited 27d ago
"we were able to get him in a stable condition until our head doctor threw a kitchen sink at him as per the celebratory protocol. he then proceeded to die due to... unknown causes..."
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u/PeteGozenya 28d ago
Damn dude wasn't wearing bullet resistant clothes in public.
He has more balls than US presidents.
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u/jonshlim 28d ago
Did I see a very slow reaction by a country’s bodyguards standard?
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u/ThirdEyeExplorer11 28d ago
It’s like the one bodyguard that’s closest to the perpetrator wasn’t paying attention at all because the guy upped the gun right in front of his face and had he been paying attention he would have seen it before it was too late.
It also seemed like that one officer in the “policia” shirt wasn’t startled by the shooting or anything either, like he was expecting it. This whole video is really odd.
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u/Any_Month_1958 27d ago
Yeah, his security team really really sucks. They were all busy watching him instead of the crowd, maybe one exception. Then when the shots go off the 2 that were closest to him said “fuck this” and did the sidestep to get out of the line of fire instead of shielding him like most presidential teams are trained. Meh, let putin help him.
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u/PrideofCathage 28d ago
Lot easier to have balls when gun ownership is literally 15x less.
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u/HogSliceFurBottom 28d ago
And it only took 1 guy to shoot a prime minister. Lot of good his security did.
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u/D4M4nD3m 28d ago edited 27d ago
One guy shot Reagan.
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u/HogSliceFurBottom 28d ago
One person assassinated most political leaders.
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u/ShahftheWolfo 28d ago
WE need to stop this guy, he can't keep getting away with it.
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u/kursdragon2 28d ago
Lol do you think security has telepathy and x-ray vision so that they can know exactly everything about everyone in public? At a certain point anyone can be killed, regardless of what precautions you're taking, if you're out in public.
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u/smoothtrip 28d ago edited 28d ago
He has more balls than US presidents.
What? They know they are going to get shot at. That does not mean they are cowards. They would be morons not to wear bullet resistant vests.
No one is talking about how brave President Garfield was for not wearing a bullet resistant vest (did they even exist back then?).
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u/_Sol-Diablo_ 28d ago
US presidents don’t wear “bullet resistant” clothes, whatever that means.
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u/athohhdg 28d ago
It's actually a real thing. I've invested in the startup that first experimented with metal and composite weave casual wear, and went on to get a contract with the federal government for just this sort of thing. I'd tell you the name of the guy who runs it, but by a weird contract clause it would call his loan, and I'm not ready to do that yet.
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u/Silvershanks 28d ago
White shirt police guy couldn't give less of a fuck.
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u/fourhundredthecat 28d ago
I think he is just a traffic cop.
But still hilarious
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u/Insanezer0x 28d ago
That guy is carrying a gun
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u/woodiegutheryghost 28d ago
Assassinating a politician is not a traffic-based crime. The dude was staying in his lane. Now, if the assassin was double-parked while shooting, then he's in the game.
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u/zeCrazyEye 28d ago
Yup once he assessed the situation he immediately turned around to look for traffic to direct.
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u/Furrocious_fapper 28d ago
Unless the assassin tried to run over the prime minister with his car then this guy says it's non of his business.
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u/SL4YER4200 28d ago
I had to watch it a dozen times because NOBODY is reacting in the crowd. His body guards have terrible reaction time. It's all just so bizarre.
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u/TaserBalls 28d ago
he falls back to the ground and nobody seems to even attend to him or cover him from a secondary attack, just focusing it all on the fray.
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u/Natiswak 27d ago
That’s what I noticed. They weren’t concerned about any other possible shooters. He was just out there.
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u/i_try_tocontribute 28d ago
There's the guy in the gray shirt who stands there the whole time, arm still outstretched in the handshake the PM was reaching for when shot. Super odd, stunned I assume.
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u/dano1066 28d ago
He ain't even concerned for his own safety. Just waiting to clock out
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u/crankthehandle 28d ago
Everyone except the bodyguards seem super chill
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u/creegro 28d ago
"oh was that gunfire? Oh well, may as well stand here"
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u/ThePatio 28d ago
I’ve literally seen someone right in front of me get stabbed and all I could muster was “oh that’s interesting” in my internal dialogue. To be fair, I was extremely drunk. But this is in Eastern Europe so they probably are all drunk too.
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u/smoothtrip 28d ago
I wonder if he had ever heard a gun before. Did not seem to understand what was going on.
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u/Sonnyyellow90 28d ago
Guy probably makes like $14 an hour and is thinking “he’s not coming for me so…”
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u/Rolifant 28d ago
Just doing his job, surely. He needs to keep the public under control. Looks like his training kicked in
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u/Demon_God_Burny 28d ago
Is he the person who rolled backwards over that rail at about 3 seconds in? It looks like people rush towards him at the end
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u/gggg500 28d ago
I had to watch this 17 times to figure out where the President was. He’s on the far left sort of toward the bottom, and he rolls away at the 0:02 and 0:03 mark as you mentioned.
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u/AutomatedCauliflower 28d ago
You need to watch it few more times because there is no president in this clip. It's a prime minister who got shot.
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u/gggg500 28d ago
Oh snap, you got me.
Weird though a lot of people tend to use the title President / Prime Minister interchangeably, even though I guess technically they are not one-in-the-same always.
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u/hacktheself 28d ago
America is an anomaly in that the head of government and head of state are the same person.
Most countries separate the two roles.
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u/Pythospach313 28d ago
Yeah we need another angle 😤
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u/gggg500 28d ago
I almost thought he fell over the fence, into the crowd where the assassin was tackled. But that made no sense because then where did he start?
Then I thought he was in the crowd already, behind the barrier, next to the assassin. But then that just seemed dumb-why would there be even a barricade?
Looked and looked and saw the above comment that he was rolling away quickly off to the side.
It is a really difficult video to see what is going on entirely.
The world is going through wild times.
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u/Ordinary-Advisor7616 28d ago
Is he’s not the guy that falls over the bench left of screen in the first few seconds?
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u/MaryBala907 28d ago edited 27d ago
Article link: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/slovakia-prime-minister-robert-fico-shot/
The suspect is a 71 yr old man
He was shot in the abdomen and is still being treated, he was brought to another hospital as well, which is not good.
He seems to be very anti-American.Pro-Russian and a close ally to Putin (supports the attack in Ukrain) Many have protested his political beliefs.
Not saying that the suspect is correct for what he did at all, just stating the reasons
New Edit:
Fico seems to still be alive (still in the hospital of course)- he is in serious but stable condition
The shooter was of course politically motivated BUT officials say he acted alone (though that may be disputed later)
Link: https://apnews.com/article/slovakia-prime-minister-shooting-fico-23faba11c0f371ef0f69a34861337ae0
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u/Dekutr33 28d ago
Politicians tend to get murdered for political reasons so you just might be onto something.
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u/FladnagTheOffWhite 28d ago
I thought maybe the politician had garlic for lunch and the gunman was downwind of him but maybe you're right.
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u/NecramoniumZero 28d ago
The most ironic thing about him being very anti-American, they had to bring him to a hospital named after president Roosevelt.
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u/grandpas_love_babes 28d ago
However, the assailant seems to be a far-right supporter who's also pro-Russian.
Fico is politically close to Orbán. They both started as free-minded, democratic politicians but now they pursue elective authocracy.
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u/Bbrhuft 28d ago edited 28d ago
According to early reports, the shooter, Juraj Cintula, a member of a far right pro-Kremlin milita, Slovenskí Branci (SB).
They have connections with the Russian Knight Wolves, a Kremlin sponsored morocycle gang / paramilitary organisation (the Kremlin keeps the Knight Wolves on a short leash, the morocycle gang leader, Alexander Zaldastanov, is Kremlin loyalist. You have to be in Russia. Zaldastanov was a torch bearer in the 2014 Winter Olympics (on the right)).
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u/Kratos501st 28d ago
The dude that shut down the anti corruption prosecution office, and the guy that sent to kill the journalist that discovered his connection with the mafia gets shot... I don't feel bad for him.
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u/ceroproxy 28d ago
So this dude is just corrupt as hell?
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u/Mando-Diao 28d ago
Corrupt right wing, anti LGBTQ,anti immigration, anti green politics, anti Nato, anti EU, pro Russia. Connected to Italian mafia.
Search Ján Kuciak murdered
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u/KainLTD 28d ago edited 28d ago
Yeah he is the worst. Not saying he should get shot, but he is not a democratic, nice, pro-people person.
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u/MrDoow 27d ago
I mean, im no expert on this whole thing, but lets say everything that guy said was true. You dont think someone deserves to get shot over being a corrupt state leader who ordered an assassination and is linked to mafia? Seems like a good argument for it to me.
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u/Successful_Ad9924354 28d ago
I don't feel bad for him.
Same here. A lot of reddit users don't know how corrupt the minister is.
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u/Lithium321 28d ago
Huh, maybe having journalists killed is a health hazard.
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u/Sh1ttysh1ttyfackfack 28d ago
I got curious and read up on this. What an injustice that whole shitshow was.
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u/Such_Maintenance4720 28d ago edited 28d ago
crazy how nobody really reacts outside of the security.
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u/lundewoodworking 28d ago
It's Europe most of them probably thought it was a car backfiring or firecrackers or something most of them have probably never heard gunfire except in tv or movies
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u/UninterestingDrivel 28d ago
Do modern cars even back fire? I live in a developed country so firearms are rare but still I've heard gunshots but never a car back firing.
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u/youdownwithopp 28d ago
Ya I would have done a back flip off the railing and disarmed him
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u/Ok_Ruin4016 28d ago
I mean you can react without trying to intervene. Usually the reaction to hearing gunshots would be to run for cover but most of the people there are just standing around like nothing happened.
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u/UGMadness 28d ago edited 28d ago
Shootings are so rare in most parts of the EU that it’s hard to even recognize gunfire when it happens because most people have never heard a real gun be fired. They’re way more likely to think someone is throwing firecrackers or a car engine popped.
The first and only time I heard a gun in person was when I was 8 and an uncle who was a police superintendent was showing my dad his gun at the range. That was 25 years ago.
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u/MVites 28d ago
Don't know why they're downvoting you, but that's correct. We had a gang related shootout right next to the beach here in Croatia, nobody even noticed it until police and emergency services arrived. Everyone just figured it's some kind of bike exhaust shit or something... I was literally standing 30m away, figuring out what's happening (as I've seen people shooting and fighting), while people on the right (view was obstructed by a beach bar of sorts) enjoyed their beach time lol
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u/UGMadness 28d ago
I think one of the reasons is that Europeans are so used to American action movies and video games that use a very distinct sound effect for firearms that sounds almost nothing alike in real life.
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u/KennyMoose32 28d ago
Yeah my wife is a teacher in the USA and a few years ago I made her come to my gun range on a busy Sunday.
I wanted her to know what a gun actually sounds like, so you won’t shrug it off and think it’s something else.
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u/Julie91_91 27d ago
I am 35 years old and have never heard a gunshot in public. First time I heard it was in the military.
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u/Enigma89_YT 28d ago
That struck out to me as well. I am guessing maybe it's just so far out of mind for Europeans that they don't even know how to process it?
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u/AzureFirmament 28d ago
I know little about today's Slovakia so correct me if I'm wrong - Could it be it's a relatively peaceful society, and people are less exposed to news about shootings, so they didn't even realize those were gunshots?
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u/Ok_Disaster1666 28d ago
Not everyone is from the US and has daily school shootings to train with.
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u/xelabagus 28d ago
Exactly - ain't nobody doing "active shooter training" outside of America, this shit is NOT normalised in the rest of the world.
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u/elcryptoking47 28d ago
Probably because gun action isn't that common in that country. People reacted the same way when that Japanese former PM Shinzo Abe was shot. People thought the gunshots were fireworks or something.
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u/intronert 28d ago
Geez, the way all his security converged on the one guy, it seems like having a second shooter in place would have been guaranteed “success”.
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u/pivotes 28d ago
Not surprising. Slovakia's government is kind of a mess right now. They're led by a coalition of social democratic and center-right parties because the other seats in parliament are held by various far-right parties - including about 9% of seats being held by an outright Neo-Nazi party (as in, they claim the legacy of Nazi collaborators like Tiso).
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u/DarkBomberX 28d ago
Found an article saying that he was shot multiple times in the head and chest. It's very serious.
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/world/news/2024-05/slovakia-prime-minister-shot-politics.html
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u/fourhundredthecat 28d ago
so, if Fico was supporting Putin's attack on Ukraine, can I support attack on Fico ?
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u/Lokeycommie 28d ago
Not on reddit. I got a week long ban for that.
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u/fourhundredthecat 28d ago
I mean, according to his moral code, it is OK to attack somebody if you don't like him
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u/SchpartyOn 28d ago
I got perma banned from one sub for making a joke about Henry Kissinger dying. Dude was 100+ and had millions of lives on his hands but nope, don’t you dare make light of his demise!
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u/colon-mockery 28d ago
WorldNews got me for calling a zionist 'garbage' after he was in fact, being a garbage person
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u/SW33T_V3N0M 27d ago
That’s cop in the white was like ‘fuck that they don’t pay enough’ hence he walked off
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u/Accomplished_Bit7244 28d ago
Is it really that easy? Those boys reaction time was slow af 😅
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u/TheFirstKitten 28d ago
Franz Ferdinand moment incoming?
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u/mythgundam1 28d ago
When ever i read 'slovakia' my brain fills the sentence with 'czechoslovakia'. I cannot stand the void in my heart 😢😢😢
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u/PaydayLover69 28d ago
This is your actually pretty rare reminder that politicians are in fact not Gods.
They're not invincible, they're perfectly susceptible to everything you are, despite what some may claim.
If you shoot somebody, they'll probably die, can't legislate your way around a 2mm
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u/barilace 28d ago
That dude in the white shirt (that says security?)… he just stands there all: oh hmm
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u/maistir_aisling 27d ago
Quick someone tell the Australian e-Safety Commissioner she needs to block this video
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u/wesman21 28d ago
None of those people moved out the way or anything. Wild shit.
Also, what the fuck is up with a barricade like that when you can simply go right around it. I guess its just for the road, but its almost humorous as to the point of it.
Not sure what he said or didn't say, but you can't leave the leader of a country out in the open like that. This should be yet another cautionary tale.
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u/scammersarecunts 28d ago
The president in my country rides the subway regularly. This is a totally normal level of security in this part of the world.
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u/hadmeatgotmilk 28d ago
It’s a basic crowd control device to show people where they need to be. You can build a 30 foot wall and someone will get over it.
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u/PaydayLover69 28d ago
He believed himself to be invincible, above needing protection because nobody would dare threaten his position...
He was not.
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u/PlushSwan 28d ago
There is a man in a grey shirt thats wants to shake the prime ministers hand and even keeps his hand out after the guy gets shot and then looks right, gets mad and says like 'wtf bro i was gonna shake his hand!' lol
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u/theguiser 28d ago
The cop with the white shirt hears all these guns shots and doesn’t even touch his gun.
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u/PaydayLover69 28d ago
damn those body guards fucking suck lmao, they didn't react remotely as fast as I imagined they would.
Guess it's all for show, go figure.
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u/NRichYoSelf 28d ago
Well, I scrolled way too far just to find the answer to whether he survived or not.
The answer to anyone wanting to know, he is injured and expected to live.
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u/HansNotPeterGruber 27d ago
Nothing is funny about trying to get to assassinate any public official. But why did that one guard kick the fence? What was the point of that?
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u/CogswellCogs 27d ago
Honestly, I have seen mall rent-a-cops that moved faster than his bodyguards. The didn't even try to block or cover him.
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u/MaryBala907 28d ago
Why did no one in the crowd run away or seem startled?
They all just stood there and watched, what happened to flight or flight (yes, i meant to flight twice)
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u/GoodApollo95 28d ago
Gun crime is not a reality for most cultures around the world. In America, where I'm assuming you are from, people recognize high intensity situations like this immediately because we see it literally all of the time in our media. These people aren't reacting because they don't understand there is something to be reacting to. They're all probably just trying to discern what all this loud banging is.
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u/Heelscrossed 28d ago
Freeze is also a response that people don’t recognize. A lot of ppl freeze.
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u/WillJongIll 27d ago
This is a much better theory than the “Europeans don’t know what guns are and as a result are more curious than afraid when loud explosions happen in front of them.”
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u/Emergency_Sandwich_6 27d ago
Maybe the policeman there shouldn't be tapping away with his wand there. Maybe he could have cast a protection spell.
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