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According to Tadeusz Giczan, editor-in-chief of Nexta, the email account [email protected] from which the threatening letter was sent to the airports was created on May 14, when Ms. Cichanouskaya was visiting Greece, two days before her. flight to Vilnius at the same time Ryanair flight in which R. Pratasevičius flew on 23 May.
“The letter mentions the Delphi Economic Forum, which took place from May 12 to 14 and was attended by Ms. Cichanouskaya. Israel must also cease fire in the Gaza Strip. On May 23, when it was sent the e-mail. letter, the fire has already stopped, unlike on May 16, “writes T. Giczan on Twitter.
“It seems that an operation was planned to seize S. Cichanouskaya’s plane, but at the last minute something happened. Then, a week later, the Belarusian secret services did the same with R. Pratasevic, but they did not update the information, so that there are discrepancies, ”he says.
R. Pratasevičius and his friend Sofia Sapega were arrested on May 23 after the Minsk regime forcibly landed a Ryanair passenger plane flying from Athens to Vilnius in the Belarusian capital.
The plane, carrying more than a hundred passengers, landed at Minsk airport after Belarusian air dispatchers reported the suspected explosive on board the plane. This information was not confirmed later. To take over the ocean liner, the Minsk regime had sent a fighter jet.
R. Pratasevičius, 26, one of the founders of the opposition information channel Nexta, was included in the list of “persons involved in terrorist activities” by the Minsk regime last year. The channel itself was declared “extremist” and ordered to be blocked.
A. Pratasevičius is accused of organizing mass riots. You can be sentenced to up to 15 years in prison for this.
There is a strong possibility that the Minsk regime initially planned to kidnap Tikhanovskaya. The ‘Hamas’ email account was created on May 14 when Tikhanovskaya was in Greece and 2 days before taking the same Ryanair Athens-Vilnius flight that Protasevich took on May 23 (1/3). pic.twitter.com/PhgaryFCE9
– Tadeusz Giczan (@TadeuszGiczan) May 31, 2021
The Montreal-based Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) announced Thursday that it was launching an investigation into last weekend’s incident.
Borrell said there is the possibility of sanctions against the potash fertilizer sector or a ban on the supply of natural gas to Belarus through the “hijacking” of the plane by the regime.
Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Cichanouskaya on Friday called on the EU to be “bolder” and impose more sanctions on the Minsk regime.
In a meeting with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte in The Hague, Cichanouskaya said that sanctions against certain sectors of the Belarusian economy that the EU is considering are not enough.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen warned Lukashenko on Friday that “it was time to change course.”
“No repression, cruelty or coercion will legitimize any authoritarian regime. Until now, it has clearly ignored the democratic choice of the Belarusian people, “he said.
The EC chief also asked the Belarusian opposition to say that the EU was “ready to contribute in every way possible to Belarus’ peaceful transition to democracy” and promised to establish a € 3 billion support package if Lukashenko leaving office.
Belarusian opposition leader S. Cichanouskaya on Monday called on the European Union to put more pressure on Minsk, saying the Belarusians themselves wanted it.
“After the rigged elections, the reaction of the European Union was quite swift. The European Union has introduced three packages of EU sanctions. We believe that sanctions could be stronger, but the European Union has left room to strengthen sanctions, “said Kersti Kaljulaid during a press conference with the Estonian president.
“We want more pressure on the regime because people in Belarus suffer every day. They are imprisoned, tortured, beaten. I hope that the fourth package of sanctions is more comprehensive, and the fifth package is being prepared because the people of Belarus want it.” , S. Cichanouskaya emphasized.
According to her, “no forceful actions against Belarus have been observed since December, attention has been diverted due to other events in the world”, so “the regime felt unpunished”.
“It just came to our knowledge then [priverstinio nutupdymo Minske] case. We don’t know what else this regime can do, who can suffer and how, ”said the former candidate for the presidency of Belarus, who left for Lithuania. According to Cichanouskaya, “it is possible to end the suffering as soon as possible by holding new and fair elections.”
The opposition leader thanked Estonia for twice convening United Nations Security Council meetings to “raise global awareness about what is happening in Belarus.”
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