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Juraj Cintula, the 71-year-old named as the man who shot Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico yesterday, has links to a pro-Russian paramilitary group in Slovakia, it has been reported. Cintula – an amateur poet and ex-supermarket security guard, had been pictured posing alongside camouflage-clad members of “Slovenski Branci [Slovak Conscripts or SB]” in 2016, which began circulating online mere hours after the attack. The shooting in Handlova, in Central Slovakia, saw Cintula lean over a fence while Fico was meeting crowds, shooting five times and hitting the PM thrice – twice in the hand and…

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