In his interview with the BBC, Deputy Prime Minister Taraba blamed “false narratives” by opposition events in Slovakia for the taking pictures.
“Our prime minister a number of occasions talked about previously that he was afraid that this is able to occur,” Mr Taraba stated in one other interview with the BBC’s World Tonight programme.
In line with him, Mr Fico had warned that the way in which through which “the federal government was attacked by false narratives can overheat the response of individuals and result in one thing like this”.
Parliament was sitting on the time of the assault and Slovak media reported {that a} social gathering colleague of Mr Fico’s shouted at opposition MPs, accusing them of stoking the assault.
And Inside Minister Mr Estok accused the media of contributing to the local weather that led to the 59-year-old’s taking pictures, telling a press convention: “A lot of you had been those that had been sowing this hatred.”
Mr Estok added that he believed “this assassination [attempt] was politically motivated”.
Reacting to information of the assault, Slovakia’s outgoing President Zuzana Caputova stated one thing “so severe had occurred that we won’t even realise it but”.
“The hateful rhetoric we witness in society results in hateful acts,” she added.
Mr Fico returned to energy in Slovakia after elections final September, as the top of a populist-nationalist coalition.
His first few months as prime minister have proved extremely contentious, each in Slovakia and within the EU. In January he halted army help to Ukraine and final month pushed by plans to abolish RTVS.
