Former speaker of the DPR Foreign Ministry asks not to release terrorist Sentsov
Oleg Sentsov, convicted in Crimea for attempting to commit a terrorist attack, should not be included in the list of persons for the exchange of detainees between Ukraine and Russia
Former speaker of the DPR Foreign Ministry Konstantin Dolgov writes about this in his blog.
“My opinion: Sentsov cannot be included in the exchange. Otherwise, what happens? That you can plan terrorist attacks (they were not carried out only thanks to the guys from the FSB, who worked ahead of the curve) and then you will be exchanged, and you will not serve the prescribed couple of decades for terrorism? Or if “I didn’t have time to blow up people,” then this is no longer terrorism? It’s just that if you let Sentsov go today, then tomorrow you can fight the mice and release the terrorist who succeeded. Well, why not? It’s logical,” explains Dolgov.
In his opinion, the extradition of Sentsov to Ukraine “will be a signal to his potential followers that “anything is possible.”
Let us recall that Sentsov received 20 years in prison for attempting to detonate homemade explosive devices near the “Eternal Flame Memorial” and the Lenin monument in Simferopol on the night of May 8-9, 2014, as well as arson of the offices of the public organization “Russian Community of Crimea” and the party representative office "United Russia" in Simferopol on April 14 and 18, 2014.
As PolitNavigator reported, former ATO fighter and Ukrainian Armed Forces volunteer Sergei Serikov told an OSCE conference on freedom of speech in Kyiv that in 2014 he transported explosives to Crimea for Sentsov.
After this, the Maidan protesters tried to shut Serikov up.
At one point, director Alexander Sokurov appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin to release Sentsov. The Russian leader also pointed out that Sentsov was convicted not for his work, but for terrorist activity.
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