“The case of direct executors of the crime has been transferred to court, the investigation is ongoing”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
The investigation sets a fire in IKEA as a terrorist attack. It is claimed that the fire was organized by two hired Russian special services of Ukrainian citizens, including a minor.
The case of direct executors of the crime has been transferred to court, the investigation is ongoing. The prosecutor’s office claims that Russian military intelligence has formed a special group aimed at arson in Lithuania, Poland and Latvia.
“It was only because of the happy coincidence of the circumstances and care of the staff and the timely arrival of firefighters, that the prosecutor’s office was not completely destroyed by the shopping center,” the prosecutor’s office said.
It is reported that the crime is investigated with colleagues from Poland. One of the suspects was detained in this country. Representatives of the Lithuanian Prosecutor’s Office claim that Ikea arson in Vilnius and arson of shopping centers in Poland was the same group, whose activities, according to the investigation, were coordinated by the Russian special service.
The fire in IKEA in Vilnius arose on the night of May 9. No one was injured, but the composition has serious losses, the amount of which is estimated at almost 500 thousand euros. In May 2024, a large shopping center with 1400 shops also burned in Warsaw. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk then stated that “it is likely that Russian special services are involved in this.” Nine people were arrested on suspicion of arson or arson, and three more were arrested.
According to Tusk, some of them are representatives of the criminal world and citizens of Belarus, Poland and Ukraine. The first half of 2024 came in other half of 2024 in other countries of the European Union, and security services claimed that it could be a planned action. In Moscow, they were either commented or denied the involvement of Russian special services in them.