Oppositionists still suspect in blast case
- 21.07.2008, 15:59
There remain no representatives of democratic organisations among the detained in the case of 4 July blast at the Independence Day concert. They are all under suspicion and must go to investigation bodies on call.
Leader of the Right Alliance unregistered organisation Yuras Karetnikau spent three days in a solitary cell of the KGB pretrial detention center. He said the KGB officers searched his apartment and warned he couldn’t disclose secrecy of investigation.
“My alibi was supported on the first day. I have stamps in my passport, I departed from Minsk-2 airport on 29 June and came back on 6 July in the evening. I was abroad that time. As I understand, I was shown ahead of the electoral campaign I was under special control. I take it as pressure ahead of the “electoral campaign”, because I am going to be a candidate of the United Democratic Forces for MP in the South-East Minsk district. I said them if they wanted me to break down, they would fail. The only thing that worried me was absence of information. I prepared a application for registration and was afraid I wouldn’t manage to run in the campaign,” he told in an interview to Radio Svaboda.
22-year old Anton Koipish, activist of the Belarusian Popular Front, related his detainment with his active participation in the “electoral campaign”. He said during the 10 days he spent in the detention center on Akrestin Street, he was given to read the documents, which didn’t arouse his interest:
“It was drawn how this joicebox looks like. Juicebox was filled with trotyl with nuts alloyed in it. There also were various experts’ evaluations. But what can I understand from DNA analyses? There was also a list of victims, who were taken blood a specimen of blood. I didn’t find any interesting information. A man I shared the cell with, told an investigator had said to him at the first questioning it was a cold case. Frankly speaking, I expected they would fabricate the case and I would get 10 years in prison. I was depressed, but then I realised I shouldn’t be sorry of what I did before. Of course, I will continue to do what I did before,” Koipish told to Radio Svaboda.