While combing the forest belt near the site of writer Zakhar Prilepin’s car explosion, a second suspect in the assassination attempt was arrested, reports REN TV and telegram channel 112 . According to the two sources, in parallel, searches are being carried out in Moscow at the addresses of the refuges cited by the first detainee.
The first suspect arrested confessed transmits 112. He is said to have stated that a few years ago he was recruited by the Ukrainian special services and provided them with information in exchange for money. Then the man was instructed to move to Russia and obtain Russian citizenship, and then liquidate Prilepin, the Telegram channel reports.
His report states that the suspect followed the writer for several days and buried two anti-tank mines on his way to his house, one of which exploded as Prilepin’s Audi Q7 passed.
By data 112, the first inmate, whose video published The Home Office is Alexander P., 29, who has a criminal record for robbery. In 2015, a man was detained during a customs check – a bayonet knife was found in his backpack. At what border this happened, it is not specified. According to social networks, Alexander graduated from a boarding school, according to the telegram channel.
investigative committee clarified that Alexander Permyakov is being interrogated in connection with the attack on Prilepin. “On the road along the route of Zakhar Prilepin’s car, Permyakov planted an explosive device, which he detonated from a distance.
After that, he fled the scene, but was arrested by law enforcement officers when he left the forest at another settlement.
<…> Experts took swabs from his hands and clothing to designate and conduct forensic examinations,” the ministry said in a statement.
Police Lieutenant Colonel Ekaterina Sirotina, Major Alexander Sokolov and Lieutenant Dmitry Voevodin, who discovered and detained Permyakov, will receive departmental awards, reported the official representative of the Interior Ministry Irina Volk with reference to the head of the Ministry Vladimir Kolokoltsev. According to her, the award order will be signed in the near future.
On May 6, an attack was committed against the writer Zakhar Prilepin in the Nizhny Novgorod region: an explosive device exploded under his car on a country road. The security driver died and Prilepin himself was injured and is in hospital. The commission of inquiry has opened a terrorist attack file. By data REN TV, the victim has a serious concurrent injury – an injury caused by an explosive mine, contusion of both lungs, multiple fractures and bruises. Prilepin was taken to the Nizhny Novgorod Regional Clinical Hospital. Semashko, where he is operated. Doctors considered the possibility of transporting the patient to Moscow, but considered that the condition did not allow him to be transported.
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