Assassination attempt on Fico

Neighbor: “He flipped a switch”

Security forces restrain the perpetrator on the ground at the scene of the crime.(Bild: Krone KREATIV/AFP/RTVS)

At the "Krone" local news show in Slovakia, acquaintances are shocked by the attack by the assassin who shot head of government Robert Fico. 

There are no candles, no roses, not even daisies in front of the House of Culture in the small Slovakian town of Handlova. On the same square where Robert Fico - the head of government of the republic - was struck down by three bullets hours earlier. A few suits are walking around. Business as usual. As if nothing had happened.