“Latvia State Security Service noted that both were already detained in Estonia on February 12 through drones near critical infrastructure facilities”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
The Head of the Department of Public Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia Mihkel Tamm confirmed that the department was informed about what happened. This was also said by a spokeswoman for the Estonian Security Police Martha Soul.
One of the users of the Baltic Trains Picture Gallery wrote about the detention of Matthias Ricky, who is fond of train shooting trains. Rickka himself published photos on this resource. “Our friend Matthias Rickka has been in a Riga prison from February 24 on suspicion of espionage … We all know that it is nonsense, and he has become a victim of paranoia Latvian law enforcement agencies,” says the author of the message.
The Latvia State Security Service confirmed LETA that the citizens of Estonia and Ukraine were detained on the third anniversary of the beginning of the full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war. Both were arrested. They are accused of collecting secret information in order to transmit a foreign country.
The detainees seized five mobile phones, four drones, two cameras, one flash drive and a forest chamber, which, according to the Latvian special service, they installed to monitor the object of critical infrastructure.
The agency noted that both had already been detained in Estonia on February 12 through drones near critical infrastructure, and one of them was declared a warning to ban such objects in Latvia without special permission last year.