The condition of the second officer wounded by the attacker is stable. Details about the possible motives for the rampage of the 69-year-old attacker are not yet known. More information about what happened during the attack will be presented at a press conference scheduled for later today at the Izola General Hospital.

For the past decade, there have been some 200 attacks on police officers a year. However, they have rarely had the consequences seen in the past three years, a period in which four officers have been killed, according police chief Marjan Fank, who was interviewed on last night’s Odmevi program. He added that the police force has noticed a lack of resources allocated by the state for equipment and safety measures in recent times, a development that has only changed over the course of the past two years. “In the past couple of years, whenever we received new funds, we always made the purchase of equipment our priority. We’ve made some upgrades and we’re planning more.”

After the event, police unions also spoke out about the safety of police officers; the unions believe that the safety of citizens can only be guaranteed if police officers are also safe. Therefore, the unions are determined not to back down when it comes to the implementation of previously agreed-upon rights, new authorizations, and a guarantee of sufficient staffing levels. Fank agrees that new authorizations, in addition to equipment, are of vital importance for the safety of police officers.

Speaking after the attack, Interior Minister Vesna Györkös Žnidar also stressed that the priority of her ministerial mandate is "to ensure suitable equipment for the police and maintaining stable work conditions in terms of legal authorizations."
Doctors also threatened
Increasingly, medical doctors are also the targets of attacks, according to the Director General of the University Psychiatric Clinic in Ljubljana Bojan Zalar. He believes that we are witnessing cultural changes, where some people misinterpret personal freedom as the right to take things into their own hands.

According to Zalar, this is seen in the medical field in the form of aggressive complaints from patients, while doctors have noticed that some patients have been armed with knives and other weapons. Hospitals are considering installing metal detectors at their entrances.

Discussions with the President of the National Assembly
In the wake of the attack, the president of the Fides medical union Konrad Kuštrin also warned about the increasing number of attacks on medical staff and the lack of safety measures. In her response, the Health Minister Milojka Kolar Celarc stressed that “the ministry will do everything within its power to make sure that such a tragic event never happens again.” The President of the National Assembly Milan Brglez will invite all relevant actors to participate in a discussion on how they can improve safety measures for the most vulnerable professions.
The attacker came to the hospital with the intent to kill the doctor
As has been reported, a 69-year-old-man entered Izola General Hospital yesterday afternoon with the intent to kill the doctor that had been treating him. When he saw the doctor in a hallway, he fired several shots at him and managed to hit him in the chest. A police officer on another mission happened to be nearby and tried to intervene; the attacker shot him as well.