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He quoted the message: “We Hamas soldiers demand that Israel stop the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. We demand that the European Union stop supporting Israel in this war. Of course. [ne pelno organizacijos] “Delphi Economic Forum” [renginio] participants return home on flight FR-4978. A bomb has been planted on this plane. If it does not meet our requirements, the bomb will explode over Vilnius on May 23. “
According to A. Sikorski, the letter in English reached the Minsk airport mailbox of the email service provider ProtonMail.
The official did not explain why the letter related to the plane flying to Vilnius was sent to the Minsk airport.
According to him, the information was immediately relayed to the flight crew and “she could return to Lviv, Kiev, land in Warsaw or fly to Vilnius, but she made her own decision to land in Minsk.”
A. Sikorskis claimed that the plane’s commander made a correct and courageous decision. “Today, we thank Ryanair for correct action in this situation,” added the Belarusian official.
On Sunday, a Ryanair passenger plane flying from Athens to Vilnius forcibly landed in Minsk, where a Belarusian opposition activist wanted by the Aliaksandr Lukashenko regime, who was flying the plane, was detained there.
A Ryanair plane, while in Belarusian airspace and approaching the Lithuanian border, suddenly turned towards Minsk and landed there.
The company said the liner had landed when Belarusian air dispatchers reported a possible security threat on the plane. This information was not confirmed during the inspection of the aircraft.
The Belarusian opposition says the plane was forcibly landed to arrest Raman Pratasevich, one of the founders of the Nexta news channel, an activist and blogger who blew up the plane. Along with him, Sofia Sapega, his friend, a Russian citizen and a law student at the European Humanities University (EHU) in Vilnius, was arrested in Minsk.
Lukashenko’s press service said on his Telegram that he had ordered the flight to be directed and the airliner to accompany the MiG-29 fighter.
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The European Union and the United States have condemned the forced landing of the liner in Minsk and demanded the release of Pratasevičius.
Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary called the incident a “state sponsored kidnapping.”
“It seems that the objective of the agents was to remove the journalist and his traveling companion. We think about the airport [iš lėktuvo] Several KGB (Belarusian State Security Committee) agents also disembarked, ”he said.
R. Pratasevičius, who started his activity as an internet activist as a teenager, left Belarus in 2019, when he started working for the influential Telegram correspondence program Nexta, which supports the opposition. Subsequently, R. Pratasevičius became a channel that currently numbers more than 1.2 million. subscriber, editor-in-chief.
The channel has been instrumental in mobilizing protesters during the unprecedented demonstrations that have rocked Belarus since last August’s controversial presidential election. Lukashenko, who has been in charge of Belarus since 1994, has secured a sixth term there. The opposition and Western democracies view the elections as rigged.
Living between Poland and Lithuania, where there are large communities of Belarusian emigrants, R. Pratasevičius became the BGM of the Telegram channel with 260 thousand. subscriber, publisher.
The Belarusian authorities indict R. Pratasevich in accordance with Article 293 (1) of the Criminal Code (organization of mass disturbances), Article 342 (1) (organization or active participation in group actions that seriously violate public order).
In November, Belarusian officials issued an arrest warrant for Pratasevičius for his work at Nexta, stating that he had “participated in terrorist activities”. His international search was also announced and an extradition request sent to Poland, advocates say.
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