Riot police stormed the bus in Lutsk and freed the hostages
Arsen Avakov / twitter.com
After the storming of the bus by the police, the attacker was arrested
Arsen Avakov / twitter.com
Ukrainian forces conducted a special operation to free hostages who had been held by the offender in the bus in the city of Lutsk. On this fact the security Service of Ukraine (SBU) opened a criminal case under part 1 of article 258 (terrorism) of the criminal code of Ukraine. This is stated in the message Department.
After the storming of the bus by the police, the attacker was arrested, UNIAN reports. This information was confirmed by the Minister of internal Affairs Arsen Avakov published video and photos from the scene.
All pic.twitter.com/p75Nf2WhAg— Arsen Avakov (@AvakovArsen) July 21, 2020
Lutsk. All intact! pic.twitter.com/ivB4u6sQEH— Arsen Avakov (@AvakovArsen) July 21, 2020
As previously reported, in the bus, EN route Krasnylivka – Berestechko, which captured an armed man, were 20 passengers. When the hostage-taking shots were heard and the Windows of the bus are visible traces of bullets. The offender also fired at the police from inside and threw a grenade which did not explode.
The police said that the negotiations with the offender complicated by the fact that he does not put forward specific requirements and only speaks in platitudes about fighting the system and anarchy. However, some criminal was able to articulate. He claimed that more than 20 senior officials of the country, including the Prime Minister, published on their pages in social networks the message “I am a terrorist in the law.”
The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, demanded the attacker must declare in front of a video camera: “Film “Earthlings” 2005 view all”. This painting is dedicated to cruelty to animals, and also talks about the dangers of livestock and fisheries on an industrial scale.
The President of Ukraine has fulfilled the demand of the terrorist, a video, urging to watch the movie “Earthlings”, placed on the page in Facebook. “Thanks to the conversation of President Vladimir Zelensky with a man who keeps the bus with people in luck, the three men left the vehicle and are now on the loose,” – said the Agency “Interfax-Ukraine” in a press-service of the President’s Office.
Police after more than seven hours after the seizure managed to pass hostages water. Her to the bus brought personally by the first Deputy head of the National police Eugene Smith.
The offender, who himself contacted the police and introduced himself as Maxim Bad was the smartphone. They used to monitor news about what’s happening, said the Deputy head of the interior Ministry Anton Gerashchenko. In addition, the attacker used the phone of one of the hostages in order to get in touch with journalists. In conversation, he promised soon to blow up the bus if his demands are not met. Presumably, the crime was committed by living in Dubno in Ukraine, 44-year-old native of the Orenburg region of the Russian Federation Maxim Compressor.
Previously the Compressor was twice convicted, “Interfax”. The Internet is his book “the Philosophy of criminal. The apology for freedom. Anti-system”, published in 2014 under a pseudonym. It contains the real facts from the life of the author. In particular, he writes that he grew up in an intellectual family, but his childhood saw too many movies and “decided to become cool.” In grade 11, he was detained on the market with a shotgun, but thanks to contacts of his father the case was closed.
“New times” writes that the terrorist later told reporters that some of the hostages are in poor condition. Among them there is at least one wounded, the pregnant woman and the child. It was also reported that in the bus at that time was no more than ten people.
According to Deputy interior Minister of Ukraine Anton Gerashchenko, the hostages were seized a mentally unbalanced person. “I must have seen different kinds of movies about hostage-taking” and decided to implement something similar, he suggested. Earlier in the press service of the national police of Ukraine reported that the suspect was undergoing treatment by a psychiatrist.