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A Slovak court convicted Juraj Cintula of a terror attack and sentenced him to 21 years for shooting Prime Minister Robert Fico.

Cintula, 72, shot Fico in the abdomen last May after a government meeting, citing disagreement with policies including ending Ukraine support.

Fico survived and recovered from the attack in a country where he is criticized for aligning Slovakia closer to Russia.

PRAGUE — A court in Slovakia on Tuesday convicted a man of a terror attack and sentenced him to 21 years in prison over last year’s attempted assassination of the country’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico.

The shooting and the trial have shaken this small, European Union and NATO-member co

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