Slovaks protest against Prime Minister Robert Fico Warnings

Tens of thousands of people in Slovak are demonstrating against Prime Minister Robert Fico’s government, opposing his warnings that provocateurs associated with liberal opposition will use protests to lead to a coup.

The rallies are held in about 25 Slovak cities and cities, the latest in a series of protests against its populist nationalist coalition.

Protesters are angry with what they say that Fico undermines the institutions, culture and position of the country in the EU and NATO, especially for its increasing attacks against Ukraine and rapprochement with Moscow.

Fico says he pursues a “sovereign” Slovak foreign policy aimed at “all four cardinal points of the compass.”

He denies the opposition that he wants to bring Slovakia from the EU and NATO, stating that his country’s membership in the two institutions is not in doubt.

The Dennik N website estimated that about 100,000 people in Slovak were attended by protests, with only 40,000 in the capital.

It is reported that about 10,000 have taken the streets of Bansko Basristrica, a city of 75,000.

On Thursday, 15,000 demonstrated in the second city of Slovakia, Cosis, to avoid a collision with a separate event that took place there tonight.

There are no reports of violence or disorder, contrary to Fico’s warnings this week, that provocateurs will encourage protesters to attack public buildings, leading to a police reaction leading to bigger protests.

Earlier on Friday, Fiko said reporters’ police will soon start deporting several foreign “instructors”, who claims to be in Slovakia to help the opposition try to overthrow their government.

On Wednesday, he convened a meeting of the Government Council for Security, saying that intelligence services have specific evidence that a group of foreign provocateurs who participated in the latest protests in Georgia, and in 2014 in Ukraine are active in Slovakia.

Slovakia’s internal intelligence, SIS, confirmed the allegations, but gave some details. The opposition has a little faith in a sister as it is governed by the son of a MP in the party of Fico’s Smher Party.

Fico said that the “large -scale” cyber attack that hit the country’s health insurer on Friday is a model of a textbook “on how to eliminate a rebellious government that has unorthodox views on certain things” – a reference to its opposition to the arms of Ukraine And his efforts to repair relations with Moscow.

He said that such activities were being carried out “by representatives of the opposition, NGOs organized from abroad, foreign instructors and media.”

Later, Dennik N reported that the incident is actually an attempt at phishing, not a cyber attack and is not particularly large in scale.

Slovak officials claim that a previous cyber attack on the country’s land register may come from Ukraine. Kyiv categorically denied the prosecution.