Several hundred people were present this Saturday April 8 in Moscow for the funeral of the Russian blogger killed in a bomb attack on Sunday April 2. Among them, the head of Wagner, Evgueni Prigojine.
In the west of the Russian capital, hundreds of people came to meditate one last time on the coffin of Maxime Fomine. Better known as Vladlen Tatarski, this military blogger was killed on Sunday in a bombing in a cafe in St. Petersburg owned by Yevgeny Prigozhin. Among the crowd which was thoroughly searched by the important force of order put in place, was also the leader of the paramilitary group Wagner. ” Vladlen Tatarski will stay with us, his voice will continue to resonate he said, according to comments reported by the Russian news agency Ria Novosti.
Maxime Fomin was one of the best known pro-Kremlin and pro-Russian aggression bloggers with his 500,000 Telegram subscribers. To ensure its communication, Russia uses many of these activists who publish reports. Thus, many of them were sent to Ukraine in order to do Moscow propaganda. Proof of their importance, the blogger was decorated posthumously by the Russian president on Monday, the day after his death. The Order of Courage was awarded to Maxime Fomin ” for the courage and bravery he has shown in the performance of his professional duties “, according to decree published on the Kremlin website.
A woman arrested
Moscow accused kyiv and of the ” officers by imprisoned opponent Alexei Navalny to be implicated in this assassination. The Russian authorities have arrested and charged with “terrorism” a 26-year-old woman, Daria Trepova, who admitted having offered the blogger a booby-trapped statuette, which exploded during this event, killing him and injuring around 30 people. Daria Trepova has however not claimed, for the time being, to have participated voluntarily in the attack, nor mentioned possible sponsors. Ukraine, for its part, said that it was an internal settling of accounts in the circles supporting the offensive in Russia.
This incredible assassination, with still vague contours, illustrates in any case the spread in Russia of violence linked to the conflict, which now strikes far from the front. In August, Daria Douguina, the daughter of a famous pro-Kremlin ideologue, was also killed in a bomb attack near Moscow.
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(With AFP)