Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB established several addresses where those involved in the assassination attempt on the writer and co-chairman of the Just Russia – For Truth party Zakhar Prilepin could live
“In Moscow and the Moscow region, the police and the FSB identified several addresses where possible participants in the assassination attempt on Prilepin lived. An apartment was also installed in which they could assemble IEDs, ”TASS quotes the words of its source in law enforcement agencies.
The car in which Zakhar Prilepin was driving was blown up on the morning of May 6, 50 km from the town of Bor, Nizhny Novgorod Region. The driver died from the explosion. According to media reports, he was 27-year-old Alexander Shilov, a Luhansk militiaman who served in the Prilepin detachment. The writer himself was injured in his legs, he was hospitalized in serious condition.
The attempt on Prilepin’s life was qualified as a terrorist act by the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. With reference to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the media reported on the detention of a person who may have been involved in the assassination attempt. According to unconfirmed reports, this is a 30-year-old man who recently received Russian citizenship. He had previously been convicted.
Source: Rosbalt
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