Vilnus (Lithuania)
“This attack is the first case of political terrorism on our territory.”
The opinion comes from the national crisis management center, an organization which is notably responsible for civil protection in Lithuania.
On the evening of March 12, Leonid Volkov, a close friend of Alexeï Navalny who had taken refuge in Lithuania for several years, was attacked with tear gas and a hammer in front of his home.
There will now be a before and an after.
Mikhail Maglov is an investigative journalist who has taken refuge in Lithuania for ten years.
This close friend of Boris Nemtsov is not surprised.
“The authorities were counting on fear to make Vladimir Putin's opponents bend and they were unable to do anything.
Fear did not overcome the horror of the murder.
We understood that after the murder of Alexei, an attack on someone would occur.”
Lithuanian intelligence services quickly indicated that this aggression was
“probably organized and implemented by Russia”
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