The attack on Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico, who was shot multiple times on Wednesday, was a "political assault," says the country's deputy prime minister and defence minister. "It is beyond doubt that it was a political assault with a political background. You all know that very well, and I can't cope with that internally," Robert Kalinak told reporters during a press conference at the hospital in the city of Banska Bystrica, where Fico was transported after the attack. SOUNDBITE