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Tens of thousands protest in Slovakia against PM Fico

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Rob Cameron

Prague correspondent

grey placeholderEPA evening protest in Bratislava, where many demonstrators make the camera a greeting of victory and one of them carries a rose. They face a much larger group of demonstrators behind the barriers carrying signs and flags of Slovakia and UkraineEnvironmental Protection Agency

The protest seemed much greater than the last demonstration of this type two weeks ago

Tens of thousands of people throughout Slovakia demonstrate against the government of Prime Minister Robert Fico, defying his warnings that the instigators associated with the liberal opposition will take advantage of the protests to cause a coup.

Marches are organized in about 25 countries and the city of Slovak, which is the latest in a series of protests against its national populist coalition.

The demonstrators are angry with what they say is undermining the country’s institutions, culture, and position in the European Union and NATO, especially its increasing attacks on Ukraine and rapprochement with Moscow.

Fico denies the allegations of the opposition that he wants to remove Slovakia from the European Union and NATO, saying that his country’s membership in the two institutions is not in doubt.

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Robert Fico accuses the opposition of planning a coup

The local newspaper “Denick” estimated that about 100,000 people across Slovakia participated in the protests, including at least 40,000 in the capital alone.

It is reported that about 10,000 people went to the streets of Bastra Pesterita, a city with a population of 75,000.

15,000 people demonstrated, on Thursday, in the city of Kusichi, the second largest city in Slovakia, to avoid collision with a separate event that is held there this evening.

There were no reports of violence or unrest, unlike Fico’s warnings this week that the instigators will encourage the demonstrators to attack public buildings, causing a reaction from the police that lead to greater protests.

Earlier on Friday, Fico told reporters that the police would soon start deporting many foreign “coaches” who claimed to be in Slovakia to help the opposition try to topple his government.

On Wednesday, he called for a meeting of the government’s Security Council, saying that the intelligence services have concrete evidence that a group of foreign instigators who participated in the recent protests in Georgia and in 2014 in Ukraine was active in Slovakia.

The Slovaki Internal Intelligence SIS, SIS, confirmed these allegations, but it only provided few details. The opposition does not trust much in the State Information Service, as the son of a parliament member is run by the Samir party led by Fico.

Fico said that the “wide -ranging” electronic attack that struck the country’s health insurance company on Friday was a model model “of how a disobedient government has liquidated unconventional opinions on certain things” – in reference to his opposition to arming Ukraine and its efforts. To fix relations with Moscow.

He added that such activities are implemented by “representatives of the opposition, non -governmental organizations organized from abroad, foreign trainers and media.”

Dennik N later reported that the accident was actually an attempt to hunt a fraudulent, not an electronic attack, not particularly wide.

Slovak officials claimed that the former cyberspace on the country’s land record may have come from Ukraine. Kyiv has categorically denied these accusations.

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2025-01-24 20:38:00

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