SKINHEADS MAY BE BEHIND BLAST AIMED AGAINST ARMENIANS IN MOSCOW
Ekho Moskvy radio, Moscow
Dec 23 2006
[Presenter] An explosion in a block of flats in Lyublinskaya Street
in Moscow which occurred yesterday [22 December] may have been
carried out by skinheads. Anyway, this is a preliminary theory of
investigators. Our correspondent Tikhon Zyatko has the details.
[Correspondent] A blast at 157 Lyublinskaya Street in Moscow went off
at about 1900 [1600 gmt]. As a result, four policemen and a sniffer
dog were hurt. A prosecutor’s office brought criminal proceedings
into the incident under the clause [of the Russian Criminal Code]
dealing with hooliganism committed in a socially dangerous way.
However, this case may be reclassified.
According to the investigators’ preliminary theory, this incident is
a fresh attack against foreigners staged by skinheads, the newspaper
Komsomolskaya Pravda said. An improvised explosive device was fixed
outside the flat of Armine Babadzhanyan who found the bomb. When she
came home with her son Tigran, she saw swastika drawn on the wall.
Next to it, on a radiator, she saw a sheet with an insulting text
written on it. The woman wanted to remove the sheet but noticed wires
connecting it to a glass jar filled with white powder. Swastika was
also drawn on the jar. After that, she called police.
[Presenter] The same group of investigators who deal with the
explosion at the Cherkizovskiy market [in Moscow] organized by
nationalists, is investigating the blast in the block of flats in
Lyublinskaya Street.