Footage from a police camera showed men dressed in civilian clothes chopping open the front door with axes. Zelcer defended himself against them with a legally held weapon, shooting one of the men. The KGB returned fire and killed the young analyst.
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“When the KGB entered the room, Dmitry Fedosyuk was the first to go. He saw a man there with a gun in his hand. The bastard shot him right in the heart. More than Dima (abbreviation for Dmitrij – editor’s note) he died, managed to fire two shots and shot the man, “Lukashenko was quoted as saying by the Belta agency.
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Lukashenko also said that all detainees testified. And that he will show who is who on the screens.
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“If the villains think we won’t get them abroad, they’re wrong. We will not forgive them for the death of our boy! ”The head of state pointed to the address of the opposition leaders, who had previously been forced to go into exile abroad. According to Lukashenko, they first called for help from the apartment twice.
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The seconded team then slammed the door and stepped inside “to help the villains who called for her.” However, they allegedly prepared their weapons and filmed everything on video, which they broadcast live to Poland and the USA.
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Andrej Zelcer
Photo: Twitter / Franc Viačorka
It turned out that they were not ordinary participants in the protest movement, but “real participants in the uprising,” Lukashenko said. According to him, the incident was a long and carefully prepared provocation.
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“We are not stupid enough to do purges on all fronts, even if we can do it. Innocent people who have nothing to do with all this could suffer, “Lukashenko admitted.
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Video of the shootout in Minsk, which originally appeared in sources associated with the Belarusian authorities pic.twitter.com/6BzAr9OUcC
– Novaya Gazeta (@novaya_gazeta) September 28, 2021
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“Therefore, I specify that we will process various people and organizations in points, purposefully and appropriately with the help of special services and units of the Ministry of the Interior. We are smart enough to deal with every villain precisely, “said the head of state.
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The shot Zelcer worked for the American IT company EPAM System. Some sources state that the young man had American citizenship. The US Embassy in Minsk is verifying this information.
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The KGB arrested 50 other people on Thursday in connection with the spread of reports of the incident. This was announced by the Vyasna Center for Human Rights in Belarus.
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“The arrests are apparently linked to comments on social media posts about the death of (IT worker) Andrei Zelcer and a member of the KGB,” the organization said.
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The leadership of the Gomel Regional Executive Committee laid flowers at the monument to the Communards-Chekists near the KGB building in Gomel in memory of the KGB officer of Belarus Dmitry Fedosyuk who died in the line of duty pic.twitter.com/wGaBhx0k03
– BELTA (@beltanews) October 1, 2021
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Belarusian authorities have been blocking access to the server of the popular Russian daily Komsomolskaya Pravda, which has 20,000 readers a day in Belarus since Wednesday. The authorities did not explain this step, but according to the AP, it is probably related to the fact that a comment from a friend of the shot programmer appeared in the letter, who painted it in a positive light. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday that Russian authorities “categorically disagreed” with blocking the Russian daily’s website.
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