The Austrian Interior Ministry has denied reports in Russian media that a Ukrainian woman named by Russia as a suspect in the attack on Darya Dugina had been staying at a Viennese hotel. “According to the current state of knowledge of the Directorate of State Security and Intelligence (DSN), the person spotted in a Vienna hotel should not be this woman,” a ministry spokesman said Wednesday afternoon.
Nevertheless, as in other European countries, Austria is being checked whether the woman in question is or has been on federal territory, said the representative of the Ministry of the Interior to the APA.
The suspect would have traveled to Estonia
Without citing concrete evidence of direct involvement in the crime, state-controlled media in Russia, citing the FSB secret service, accused Ukrainian Natalya W. of the car bombing of the daughter of Russian right-wing ideologue Alexander Dugin. , Darya Dugina, outside Moscow on Saturday night. According to published videos, 43-year-old W. would have left Russia for Estonia on Sunday.
On Tuesday, in Russia, there was finally talk of a continuation of W’s journey to Austria – she would travel with a child and two other women, the media wrote, citing the propaganda Internet medium ukraina.ru, which is owned by the state media group. Rossiya Segodnja.
Hotel near the central station
The RIA Nowosti news agency, which is also part of the group, mentioned a specific hotel not far from Vienna’s main train station on Tuesday afternoon. “Some hotel employees who saw W.’s photo confirmed that they had seen a similar woman,” the Vienna correspondent of RIA Novosti reported. Why the news agency asked in the specific hotel of all places remained unclear. A representative of the PR agency responsible for the hotel said Wednesday at APA’s request that they would not comment on this speculation.
Source: Krone
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