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Former Nexta editor-in-chief Roman Protasevich detained in Minsk
The plane on which he flew was urgently landed in Belarus due to a message about a bomb
On the afternoon of May 23, a Ryanair airline, flying from Athens to Vilnius, urgently landed in Minsk. According to Franak Vyachorka, an advisor to Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, on board was a journalist, former editor-in-chief of the Nexta telegram channel Roman Protasevich.
Before the flight, according to Nexta, Protasevich noticed that he was being watched. In Minsk, passengers were taken off the plane and sent to the airport for a second inspection, during which Protasevich was detained.
At the Minsk airport, they said that the Ryanair plane landed after the signal about a bomb planted - the pilots themselves allegedly requested the landing . At the same time, the head of the communications department of Vilnius International Airport (the flight was supposed to arrive there) Lina Beishene said :
"As far as I know, there was a conflict between the crew member and the passenger. The plane has now successfully landed. We have no other official information."
Nexta reported that, according to preliminary information, the KGB officers staged a fight with the crew during the flight, insisting that there was an explosive device on board. As a result, the crew was forced to request an emergency landing.
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В Минске задержали бывшего главреда Nexta Романа Протасевича 23.05.2021 | ВЕСТИ
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