After the bomb attack on pro-Kremlin propagandist Vladlen Tatarski, the police apparently arrested a woman. The background to the explosion in Saint Petersburg is still unclear. This is the state of affairs.
On Sunday at 6:13 p.m. local time, the police and rescue workers in Saint Petersburg set out. There was an explosion in a café on the Neva embankment (the star reported). A well-known military blogger dies in the bomb attack. What happened in the restaurant? And who is behind the explosion? The most important questions and answers about the fatal incident in the Russian Baltic Sea metropolis:
What’s in the Saint Petersburg cafe “Street food bar No.1″happens?
Russian news agencies, citing security authorities, report that a woman presented a statuette to the later fatality at an event. The figure is said to have contained an explosive device that detonated shortly after 6 p.m. local time. “She gave it to him”and later “there was suddenly an explosion”, eyewitness Alisa Smotrova told the French news agency AFP. It have “blood and broken glass” given. Wladlen Tatarski was killed on the spot, it is said.
Who is responsible for the attack?
Police and rescue services rushed to the café in large numbers. Local media reports that the figure’s presenter sat in the back rows of spectators but disappeared after the explosion. She was recognizable on footage of the event in the café. A suspect has since been arrested, according to AFP. According to the Anti-Terrorism Committee, it is a 26-year-old woman. She is said to be connected to the anti-corruption foundation of the imprisoned Kremlin opponent Alexei Navalny. Nothing is known about possible masterminds of the bomb attack. The police launched a murder investigation. it would “all necessary measures taken to identify the persons involved”the investigators said.
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What is known about the crime scene?
The cafe “Street food bar No.1” is located in the center of the metropolis with five million inhabitants on a busy main thoroughfare along the Neva River. According to its own statements, the restaurant used to belong to the leader of the Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin. However, he did “patriotic” left to activists. This information could not be independently verified. The group “Cyber Front Z”posing as “Russia’s information soldiers” referred, indicated the cafe on Sunday evening for a “patriotic evening” to have used.
Who is the victim Vladlen Tatarski?
Vladlen Tatarski, 40 years old, is actually called Maxim Fomin. The Kremlin-loyal propagandist originally comes from Donbass in Ukraine. In 2014, he reportedly fought alongside pro-Russian separatists for several months before turning to reporting on the war. More than 500,000 people have subscribed to his Telegram channel. Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of the neighboring country, Tatarski’s popularity has continued to grow. He mainly reported on what was happening at the front in the war zone and most recently gave Russian soldiers advice on how to behave in the combat zone. Tatarsky was considered a supporter of the Russian war of aggression. According to the latest information, at least 25 other people were injured by the explosion.
What are the reactions to the attack?
“Cyber Front Z” explained: “Our condolences to all who knew the excellent war correspondent and our friend Vladlen Tatarski.” Although security measures have been taken for the event, “but it wasn’t enough”. The attack triggered horror in Russia’s power apparatus. A spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry called the killed blogger a “defender of the truth” and indirectly and unprovenly blamed Kiev for his death. He is for Ukraine “dangerous” become. Russian journalists felt “constantly threatened by reprisals from the Kiev regime”. Unless “It is thanks to Russian war correspondents that the world was able to see true, operational images” see and experience “what is happening in Ukraine”, said the spokeswoman. Wagner boss Prigozhin, on the other hand, explained: “I think that a radical group is acting that should hardly have any connection to the government (in Kiev).” In a first reaction, Ukrainian presidential adviser Mikhailo Podoliak said it was “a question of time”When “domestic terrorism an instrument of domestic political struggle” become.
Editor’s note: This article was supplemented after its initial publication with further information on the arrested woman.
Source: Stern
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