Suspect in Robert Fico assassination attempt was a poet who led anti-violence campaign

The man who tried to assassinate Slovakian prime minister Robert Fico is a government critic and poet who once founded a campaign group against violence, it has emerged.

The suspect was named in local media reports on Wednesday night as Juraj Cintula, a 71-year-old resident of Levice in western Slovakia.

Mr Cintula, who is the author of three poetry collections and two books, is listed as one of the founders of the Dúha literary club, in which he has been active since 2005.

In 2015, he founded the campaign group Against Violence, and had sought to get it officially registered in Slovakia.

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