Provocation against Pavel Sheremet in Minsk

• 29.10.2007, 12:21

The car of famous journalist Pavel Sheremet was burst into and damaged badly by unknown people, in the morning last Saturday. Fortunately, the journalist didn’t drive to Moscow on that morning as it was planned, and the breakage was discovered in Minsk.

The car was parked in the very center of the capital, 20 m from the embassy of a European country. The criminal was acting in the presence of the police that guard the embassy 24 hours a day. The exhaust system muffler was covered with froth used for construction, the petrol tank was filled with sugar and the screws of a front wheel were unscrewed nearly under the police shelter. More damage is likely to be discovered at the service check.

Nevertheless, it is obviously a work of experts. The new car is well-equipped with a complicated alarm system and special training is needed, for example, to open the petrol tank from outside so that the alarm doesn’t go off.

“This looks like the style of Navumau’s men. Such a primitive village style of spiting: to smear neighbour’s gates with shit, to pour urine to milk… In other words, in cities nobody has filled petrol tanks with sugar for a long time; this is something only village dwellers do. And since now entire villages are employed to KGB and Home Ministry, they bring their rules to the service. They have much hatred and lack brain and manners,” Pavel Sheremet commented on the event.

This is not the first case that the mobile property of the opposition or critics of the present regime is damaged in a suspicious manner. Not long ago somebody unscrewed a wheel of the car in which Siargey Kaliakin and Anatol Liabedzka were going to the high way Minsk-Brest. Luckily, the “damage” was discovered before the car drove to the high way, otherwise the politicians would not have been alive now. “The special forces move from unconcealed kidnapping and murders to clandestine hits. Now they are trying to contrive a car accident, but soon they will start to bait the opposition,” Pavel Sheremet states.