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| Trepova appeals the verdict in the case of a terrorist attack in a St. Petersburg cafe |
| 2024-02-10 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Sentenced to 27 years in prison for organizing a terrorist attack in St. Petersburg on April 2, 2023, Daria Trepova (listed by Rosfinmonitoring as terrorists and extremists) appealed the sentence, her lawyer Daniil Berman said on February 9. The lawyer said that he sent a complaint against Trepova’s sentence to the 2nd Western District Military Court. He sent the appeal by mail today, February 9. As IA Regnum reported, the 2nd Western District Military Court handed down a guilty verdict to Trepova on January 25. She was found guilty of terrorist attack, illegal movement of explosives and using false documents. Trepova was sentenced to 27 years in a general regime colony with restriction of freedom for two years and to pay a fine of 600 thousand rubles. The terrorist attack, the organizer of which the court found Trepova to be, occurred in the Street Food Bar No. 1 cafe in St. Petersburg on April 2 last year. During a creative evening, which was conducted by military correspondent Maxim Fomin (pseudonym Vladlen Tatarsky ), a powerful explosion occurred. The military correspondent was killed and 42 more people were injured. The explosion occurred after Trepova presented the military correspondent with a figurine filled with explosives. During interrogation, she said that she did not know about the explosives in the figurine and, by handing it over to the military correspondent, she was only carrying out the instructions of her Ukrainian curators. A polygraph test showed that Trepova knew about the contents of the figurine. At the trial, she stated that she regretted what happened, and again asserted that she did not wish the military commander to die. Following the trial, Berman called Trepova’s sentence illegal and unfounded. He called Trepova’s sentence “the harshest sentence against a woman in the history of Russia.” |
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