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September 7, 12:28
Maria Kolesnikova (Photo: REUTERS / Vasily Fedosenko)
The opposition member Maria Kolesnikova, a member of the Coordination Council, was kidnapped in the center of Minsk. This was reported on Monday morning, September 7, by the Belarusian edition TUT.by.
Coordinating Council spokesman Anton Rodnenkov said Kolesnikova was alone in the city center on business. Now your phone is available, but you don’t answer the phone.
NV tells everything that is known at the moment about a high-profile event in Belarus, where for almost a month the protests have not abated due to the falsification of the presidential elections in favor of the dictator Alexander Lukashenko.
Kidnapping of Maria Kolesnikova – latest news
Lithuanian Foreign Ministry on Kolesnikova kidnapping: Stain’s methods of the NKVD
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius on Twitter: Instead of dialoguing with the residents of Belarus, the outgoing leadership is cynically trying to destroy them one by one. The kidnapping of Maria Kolesnikova in the center of Minsk is a disgrace. The Stalinist methods of the NKVD are used in Europe in the 21st century. It must be released immediately.
Police deny arrest
Minsk police say they did not arrest Maria Kolesnikova.
And the official representative of the Belarusian Interior Ministry, Olga Chemodanova, in a comment to Interfax, said that so far she could not report anything about Kolesnikova’s alleged arrest.
Ministry of Interior «does not have “information about the arrest
The Belarusian Interior Ministry reported that they have no information about the arrest of Kolesnikova and her associates.
Police comment
Minsk police said they were checking the reports on the kidnapping of Maria Kolesnikova.
What an eyewitness told of the kidnapping
Anastasia, an eyewitness to the events, said that in the morning, near the National Museum of Art in Minsk, unknown persons put Kolesnikova in a minibus with the inscription “Communication” and drove away in an unknown direction.
«I saw her live before so I recognized her. I also wanted to get closer to her, talk to her, thank her, and then I changed my mind, I decided that the person was already tired. I walked forward, and at some point I still thought that I would turn around and show Masha a heart. Not far from the museum, I saw a dark minibus parked with the Communication on board sign and a Sobol brand on the back. I walked forward and heard the sound of a phone falling on the asphalt, a kind of stomp, I turned around and saw that people dressed in civilian clothes and with masks were pushing Maria towards this minibus, her phone goes off, one of these people he picks up the phone, jumps into the minibus and they leave, ”says Anastasia.
The girl did not dare to film what was happening on the phone, because she was too close to masked strangers and feared that she too would be arrested.
