Fico: European Commissioner Jourova Should Start Doing Her Job

Bratislava, April 25 (TASR) - Vice-president of European Commission for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality Vera Jourova, blinded by her love for Igor Matovic, Daniel Lipsic and Zuzana Caputova, has completely failed to respond to the "absolute disintegration of justice" in Slovakia, even though it is the description of her job, for which she gets paid €20,000 monthly, Smer-SD chair Robert Fico claimed his video post on Monday. "She (Jourova) doesn't mind that people in Slovakia are imprisoned without reasons, that police officers of NAKA intend to set the car of my colleague on fire, that rights of the people held in custody are continuously trampled and that the opposition is being liquidated via the abuse of the criminal law. But she minds that I called the Slovak President an American lady," declared Fico. "Ms. Caputova is essentially, first and foremost, an American agent obediently carrying out orders of the US Embassy in Bratislava. And I'm using the word 'lady' only to be polite towards the head of the state!" added Fico, who would like Jourova to start doing her "royalty-income job". As part of Operation Twilight, Fico and ex-interior minister Robert Kalinak (Smer-SD) were charged by the National Crime Agency (NAKA) with setting up, masterminding and supporting a criminal group, misusing their powers and jeopardising confidential tax information while in office (in 2012-18). The parliamentary mandate and immunity committee will deal with a request to give consent for MP Fico to be taken into custody on Wednesday (April 27). mf/mcs