Cypriot police said Thursday, August 6 that they had questioned a Russian after the publication of information linking this individual to the boat which had transported the 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrates whose explosion devastated Beirut. " The Lebanese authorities asked us to locate this individual and to ask him questions, which we did ," a spokesman for the Cypriot police told AFP.
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" His answers were sent to Lebanon, " he added, adding that this man, Igor Gretchouchkine, had not been arrested but only questioned about the ship's cargo at the request of the Interpol office in Lebanon. The huge explosions on Tuesday, the worst experienced by Lebanon, were triggered by a fire that broke out in a warehouse that has housed a stock of ammonium nitrate for six years, " without precautionary measures ", according to the authorities. At least 137 people have been killed, thousands injured and hundreds of thousands left homeless.
