After a arson on an IKEA -furniture in Vilnius, the judicial authorities of Lithuania were certain last year: Russia is behind it. It was charged for a suspected terrorist attack.
In the night of May 9, 2024, a fire broke out in the furniture giant. Fortunately, nobody was injured. The security authorities later expressed suspicion of arson in the course of the investigation.
The investigations have also shown that the two people who were arrested in the case on behalf of the Russian military secret service said that the attorney general of the Baltic EU and NATO country in Vilnius.
The suspects and their intermediaries must also be associated with similar crimes in Poland. Lithuania and Poland belong to NATO and his close partners and supporters of Ukraine, who have been fighting a Russian invasion for three years.
Car as a reward
According to the attorney general, the two arrested are two young Ukrainian citizens, of whom there is still a minor. According to this, the two suspects would have been agreed to fill in a secret meeting in Warsaw in a reward of 10,000 euros in shopping centers in Lithuania and Latvia. A car was promised them as a reward and they would have received it later. One is currently being held in Poland, said public prosecutor Artura’s Urbelis Lithuanian media.
“The organizer of these actions is Russia”
According to the office of the general public prosecutor, the arson was planned for a few months and performed with a fire brigade with time dying. “The organizer of these actions is Russia, they are connected to the military secret service and the security forces,” said researcher Urbelis.
It is said of the suspect that he has systematically obtained special knowledge before the crime and has acquired the necessary skills. To do this, he should have repeatedly been in Poland and Lithuania. According to the Lithuanian researchers, he drove to Warsaw, even after the fire. He returned to Lithuania a few days and wanted to continue by bus to Latvia. The public prosecutor said he was being stopped and arrested by the authorities.
Connection with crimes in Poland
According to the public prosecutor, there are other suspects who could have been involved in the arson attack. He spoke about a “terrorist group” and long chain of Midden -Men who pass on various social networks and communication channels and pass on instructions to the suspects. Both the suspects and their middle men would have a connection with crimes committed in Poland.
The Polish government has accused the Russian secret service several times to stand behind arson and sabotage files in Poland. Last May a major fire in Warsaw destroyed a shopping center with around 1400 stores. Nobody was injured, but more than 700 people lost their work or their livelihood. There are investigations underway for suspected arson.
Poland Prime Minister Donald Tusk now wrote on X: “Dear allies, the Lithuanian researchers have confirmed us suspected that the Russian secret service is responsible for arson in shopping centers in Vilnius and Warsaw.” It is good to know this before negotiations with Russia about a cease -the fire in Ukraine. “This is the character of this state,” Tusk said with a view to Russia.
Source: Krone
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