Is it true that the wife of a person who shot at Robert Fitzo is a Ukrainian?

After the attempt on the Prime Minister of Slovakia on May 15, 2024, the version began to spread in the media and social networks that the wife of the shooter, a native of Ukraine, who pushed her husband to a crime. We checked how justified these statements are.

On May 15, after a visiting meeting of the Slovak government in the city of Gandlov, the prime minister of the country Robert Fitzo It was committed Employment: When the politician came up to talk with a group of local residents, a man from the crowd seriously wounded him with several shots from a pistol. Fitz was soon taken to the hospital and operated on. By data On May 29, his condition is gradually improving, but due to the severe nature of the wounds, this process is not fast. Criminal Detained On the spot, it turned out to be the Slovak writer Yurai Zintul.

Soon the Russian media began write About the "Ukrainian trace" in the attempt on Fito: the wife of Zintola allegedly turned out to be a Ukrainian and incited her husband to attack politicians, whose views are many They think pro -Russian. In Telegram, the version of the Ukrainian wife shared among other writer Zakhar Prilepin (102,000 views at the time of writing this analysis), television and radio host Armen Gasparyan (80,000), channels "Fisherman"(313,000),"Zlaya Prof"(200,000),"Sheikh Tamir"(131 000) and"Release Kraken!"(129,000). Newspaper "Moscow Komsomolets"Called the woman a Ukrainian refugee and activist Maidan, and"Arguments and facts"Entitled their article about Zintul as follows:" Pervert, wife Ukrainian. Personal problems of the shooter in the fifth are named. ” Russian publicist Alexander Dyukov wrote In his Telegram channel (46,000 views): “In Slovakia, the wife of Zintula, who attached to the fitz, was arrested. Then the beautiful begins: she is a refugee from Ukraine and set her husband for revenge to pro -Russian politics. Ukraine kills. There are no exceptions. ”

In addition, many Russian Telegram channels distributed information about the detention of Zintula’s wife at the Bratislava airport “when trying to escape”. Channel Win/Win (406,000 views) wrote: “This citizen of Ukraine, who did not want to take the name of her husband after marriage in 2020, was detained at Bratislava airport while trying to fly to Warsaw. I was under house arrest, but I didn’t sit at home. In addition, the woman violated the obligation to turn to the investigator. Tomorrow the court will choose a measure of restraint. The main suspect. The gunner, accomplice, intermediary. To choose from. "

In turn, Telegram channel "Summies and analytics of”(87,000 views) published“ Exclusive Inside ”that the Slovak police allegedly received screenshots of a woman’s correspondence with Ukrainian intelligence services. “The mailbox was probably hacked, and the correspondence hit the police directly. Now the police will understand, wrote, did not write whether it was recruited by Ukraine or not. But from today for the whole world, the prime minister of the European country was Walled by the special services of Ukraine. And this is no longer a joke, ”the post says.

On the evening of May 15, 2024, shortly after the attempt on Fitzo, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Slovakia Matus One saidthat the shooter had "clearly had political motives." Three weeks before the attack on the Prime Minister of Zintul, he was seen at the protest against the government policy against Ukraine (on video He is in a striped jumper with a white poster). And after the detention, the writer and activist admittedthat he did not agree with insufficient the volume of military assistance to Kyiv.

By messages The Slovak press, in the evening of the same day, the police went to Zintuly's apartment and took his wife Elena Zintulov for interrogation to the police. On video The woman leaves the entrance, accompanied by the police, covering her face with a newspaper. According to Slovak edition Pravda, law enforcement officers accompanied Zintulov only for security reasons, and not because she was arrested. Although it is not known for sure when a woman was released from interrogation and where she is now, from the Ministry of Internal Affairs or the Slovakian prosecutor’s office in two weeks that have passed since the attempt, there was no reports that she was charged or she was under house arrest as she was under house arrest. Approved Russian sources.

There is also no evidence that "the police received screenshots of the correspondence of the wife of a terrorist with the special services of Ukraine." On the held 22 press conferences With the participation of Deputy Prime Minister, Prosecutor General and Minister of Internal Affairs of Slovakia, the Ukrainian Trace was not mentioned, and the Slovak Ministry of Internal Affairs published fast The fact that you should not believe the fakes about Ukraine's involvement in the attempt on a fif.

Messages The fact that Zintulov was detained at the Bratislava airport while trying to hide and that the court intends to choose a preventive measure for her, are not confirmed by either the statements of the police, or information from the authoritative Slovak media. Press Secretary of the General Prosecutor's Office of Slovakia Zuzan Drobov in a commentary agency AFP I called these statements false.

Also the authorities of the country refuted The statement that Zintulova is a refugee from Ukraine. Several details from the biography of the spouses indicate that they lived in Slovakia if not their whole lives, then at least several decades. TV channel Markíza TV He talked with a couple’s neighbor Ondrey Sabo, who said that the zintola and his wife lived in the city of Levice for about 40 years. Deputy Director of the Gymnasium located there, where Zintulova taught geography, also Confirmedthat the woman worked in an educational institution from 1979 to 2005, after which she retired. Neither neighbor nor former colleague Zintulova Not rememberedTo speak Ukrainian or talk about any connection with this country.

The police are also searched Cottage of a couple in the village of Yablonevts, where Zintulova was born, according to information from her profile on Facebook. According to documents on the right of ownership published by the agency AFP, a woman belongs to a part of this house. In addition to the Cintulov cottage owns shares of land in Yablonevts, which she inherited in 2004 and 2011.

Statements Russian telegram channels that Zintuly's wife is “a citizen of Ukraine, who did not want to take her husband’s name after marriage in 2020,” also at least raise doubts. Firstly, acquaintances and neighbors are couples They saythat the spouses have two common adult children, which means that it is unlikely that they got married only in 2020. Secondly, Elena did not refuse to take her husband’s last name and in all sources (including her page on Facebook) appears as zintulova (additional suffix Explained features of the Slovak language).

Thus, the assertion that the wife of Zintula is a refugee from Ukraine or that she is somehow connected with the Ukrainian special services-the speculations of pro-Russian bloggers and the media trying to spread the narrative about the “Ukrainian trace” in the attempt on a fifth. Information about the arrest of a woman at the airport, when trying to hide, was also refuted by the Slovak police.

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