The FSB attempted to accuse the family, including a 14-year-old girl, of organizing terrorist attacks, including against traffic police officers, in their Moscow apartment explosion. Among other things, counterintelligence agents used evidence such as an old bookmark shaped like the Ukrainian flag.
As a reminder, a powerful explosion rocked an apartment on the 15th floor of a building on Kadyrov Street in Moscow on the evening of February 27. The blast wave blew out a façade panel. Yuri D., a 50-year-old former Gosznak employee and now a labor teacher at a Moscow school (he is also actively involved in community activities, helping people with mental disabilities), and his 14-year-old daughter, Polina, were hospitalized from the apartment.
As our project previously reported, the authorities lied about the explosion of a gas cylinder in the building, although it was immediately determined that a powerful explosive device had detonated.
One of the family's relatives told VChK-OGPU and Rucriminal.info that Yuri was immediately assigned a guard at the hospital. His wife, Olga, and 14-year-old daughter, Polina, were effectively detained by FSB officers (their detention was not officially recorded, but they were held for several days and constantly interrogated). The FSB officers were extremely aggressive, pressuring them to confess that family members, including the girl, had hidden packages containing bombs in hiding places in Moscow and the Moscow region, which were then picked up by others and detonated. They particularly emphasized the dates when the traffic police officers were blown up (December and February), practically blaming the woman and child for the bombings. The FSB officers insisted that the family was from Ukraine (they moved to Moscow in 2017), and during a search of their apartment, they discovered a children's book with a bookmark in the shape of the Ukrainian flag.
The woman and the girl categorically denied any involvement in any criminal activity. Olga was not in the apartment at the time of the incident. Polina, however, insisted that her father had received the package, placed it in the kitchen, and soon afterward, there was an explosion. Apparently, this occurred because the package was lying near electrical outlets and appliances. Fortunately, Yuri and his daughter were in another room at the time.
When Yuri regained consciousness and was able to answer questions (he suffered, among other injuries, a severe concussion and is almost completely deaf), he recounted how the events unfolded. Apparently, Yuri himself had fallen victim to telephone scammers. Posing as intelligence officers, they convinced him to carry out an "important task": retrieve a package from a hiding place and deliver it to someone in Moscow. Yuri brought the package home and placed it in the kitchen.
After confiscating Olga's phones, the FSB officers released her and her daughter. Yuri, however, remains under guard in the hospital.
