Hitman Daria Trepova has been sentenced to 27 years in prison for a fatal bomb attack on a Russian military blogger. A St. Petersburg court found her guilty of handing blogger Vladlen Tatarsky a statue packed with explosives in April 2023.
The explosion killed Tatarsky, whose real name was Maxim Fomin. In addition, more than 50 people were injured in a café. The suspect was unharmed.
Camp for accomplices
The court convicted her of a terrorist attack, unlawful possession of explosives and forging documents. The Public Prosecution Service had demanded 28 years in prison. An accomplice who briefly sheltered her was sentenced to one year and nine months in camp.
Tatarsky was a well-known supporter of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. His death caused an outcry, as did the murder of Darja Dugina, the daughter of ultranationalist thinker Alexander Dugin, in 2022.
According to the Russian judiciary, the masterminds behind the attack on Tatarsky are based in Ukraine. Among them is a Russian journalist who was also a former member of Russia’s banned National Bolshevik Party.
Defendant: I didn’t know anything about the statue
Trepova largely confirmed what happened during the trial, but confirmed in her closing statement that she knew nothing about the explosives in the statue. “I’m sorry I didn’t throw the statue into the Neva along the way,” she said, according to the Mediazona portal.
Source: Krone
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