Shouting “This is for you and your kids”, the journalist was attacked while on board a train bound for Samara
Update at 11.30 pm: The attack against Muratov was claimed via Telegram by a self-styled group of activists in support of the war in Ukraine called “Union Z paratroopers”. Meanwhile, the Moscow police have made it known that they have opened an investigation into the incident.
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Dmitry Muratoveditor of the Russian opposition newspaper Novaya Gazeta e Nobel Peace Prize 2021, was attacked by a stranger while on board a train bound for Samara from Moscow. The independent newspaper reports it forced by the Kremlin to suspend publications last weekon whose social profiles on Thursday afternoon two images of the incident were published: one of the journalist and the other of his place on the wagon smeared with red paint.
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“Oil paint with acetone was spilled on me. My eyes burn terribly“Wrote Muratov, adding that the assailant shouted at him”This is for you and your kids“. “Smell of paint throughout the wagon – he later concluded -. The departure has already been postponed by 30 minutes. I will try to wash it away. ‘
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Given what is happening in Ukraine, the attack on the Nobel Prize seems to be a violent one act of dissent against his anti Putin positions. Indeed, last March 22 had announced of wanting to auction the prestigious award won together with Filipino colleague Maria Ressa for raise funds to donate to Kiev refugees.
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It should also be noted that, in 29 years of activity, at least five reporters of Novaya Gazeta have already been killed or died under mysterious circumstances. The best known case is that of the war reporter Anna Politkovskayashot dead in the elevator of her home on October 7, 2006. A murder that, even today, remains without perpetrators.
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April 7, 2022 (change April 7, 2022 | 23:59)
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