Prime Minister Donald Tusk says Lublin police arrested a suspect in the fatal shooting of the Russian national and critical artist known as Semyon Skrepetsky. He said investigators were still seeking a “mastermind.”
A suspect has been detained in connection with the fatal shooting of a Russian national and subversive artist earlier this week, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Thursday.
The homicide of an artist who was critical of Russian, Soviet and Chechen leaders comes amid the heightened tensions amid President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
It’s one of several killings targeting prominent opposition or dissident figures in NATO countries in recent years, from Poland to Lithuania, or Britain or Berlin.
What did Tusk say about the arrest on Thursday?
Tusk said that police and Poland’s Internal Security Agency (ABW) coordinated in the arrest.
He said that the suspect was using a Georgian passport, and that investigations continued trying to find out where the orders for the killing might have hailed from.
“Suspect involved in the murder of a Russian in Biala Podlaska detained by Lublin police and ABW! He is using a Georgian passport. The services are working to establish the mastermind,” he wrote online.
Tusk also said that the killing appeared to be a “political murder.”
“If it was commissioned by Russia, then this is also a very serious matter with an international dimension,” he said.
Police in Lublin said the seized passport belonged to a 36-year-old man.
Thursday’s arrest comes after two other Belarusian suspects were also detained, but not charged.
Source : https://www.dw.com/en/semyon-skrepetski-suspect-arrested-poland/a-77602774
