"Slovak media reported that the attacker was a former employee of a private security company and author of a poetry collection Juraj Cintula. This is reported by local TV channel Markiza. In 2016, Cintula himself survived an assassination attempt when he was attacked in a shopping center in the town of Levice by a young man who was in an inebriated state. Cintula's son stated that his father had a gun permit and denied information that had emerged that Cintula was a patient of a psychiatric hospital. Cintula is now in custody and his case is being handled by the National Criminal Agency of Slovakia."
