Interim foreign and defence ministers Rastislav Káčer (l) and Jaroslav Naď (r). (source: Facebook/Slovak Foreign Ministry)
Part of the crowd that came to see a discussion on the first year of war in Ukraine in a cultural centre in Michalovce, eastern Slovakia, has been described as 'baboons' by interim Foreign Minister Rastislav Káčer due to rowdy behaviour.
"You came here to shriek like a herd of baboons," Káčer (Demokrati) told dozens of badly-behaved individuals on March 7, as quoted by The Slovak Spectator's sister publication, Korzár. "The old fathers in the SNP [1944 Slovak National Uprising] would have been ashamed of you. They would have laughed at you. You're acting like jerks, cattle. Shame on you."
Interim Defence Minister Jaroslav Naď (Demokrati) was a guest during the discussion as well. Both ministers are notorious for being forthright. In the past, Naď labelled the protesters as 'monkeys' and 'derelicts'.
