(4 Apr 2023)
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Moscow - 4 April 2023
1. Suspect Darya Trepova inside court box
2. Various of police van with Trepova
3. Close of Darya Trepova being escorted to Basmanny court building from police van
4. Wide of police workers standing next to police van
5. Wide of police workers entering court with dog
6. Wide of media in hall
STORYLINE:
A woman suspected of involvement in a bombing at a St. Petersburg cafe that killed a Russian military blogger appeared in court on Tuesday in Moscow.
Vladlen Tatarsky, 40, an ardent supporter of the war in Ukraine who filed daily reports on the fighting from the front lines, was killed Sunday as he led a discussion at the riverside cafe in the historic heart of St. Petersburg, Russia’s second-largest city.
Russian authorities described the bombing as an act of terrorism and blamed Ukrainian intelligence agencies for orchestrating the attack.
Police arrested 26-year-old St. Petersburg resident Darya Trepova, who was seen on video moments before the blast presenting Tatarsky with a statuette that is believed to have contained explosives.
The National Anti-Terrorist Committee, which coordinates counterterrorism operations, said the bombing was “planned by Ukrainian special services,” noting Trepova was an “active supporter” of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Last year, Trepova was arrested and spent 10 days in custody after taking part in an anti-war rally.
Ukrainian authorities did not directly respond to the accusation, but President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in reference to the attack that he doesn’t think about events in Russia, and his top adviser described the bombing as part of Russia’s internal turmoil.
While Trepova was arrested in St. Petersburg, her case was sent to Moscow, where the headquarters of the country’s top investigative agencies are located, in an apparent reflection of its high priority.
According to Russian media reports, Trepova told investigators she was asked to deliver the bust, but didn’t know what was inside it.
Tatarsky was the pen name of Maxim Fomin, who had accumulated more than 560,000 followers on his Telegram messaging app channel. Tatarsky, who joined separatists in eastern Ukraine after a Moscow-backed insurgency erupted there in 2014, fought on the front lines for years before turning to blogging.
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