Slovak PM Robert Fico in stable condition after assassination attempt

Police arrest a man after Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was shot(Radovan Stoklasa/TASR via AP)

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico is in a serious but stable condition after the populist leader was shot multiple times in an assassination attempt that shook the small country and reverberated across the continent weeks before European elections.

A suspect is in custody, and Interior Minister Matus Sutaj Estok said that an initial investigation found “a clear political motivation” behind the attack on Mr Fico while he was attending a government meeting in a former coal mining town.