The incident of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Founder of a Diamond Company, in the Central African Republic, and the Russian Foreign Ministry
A Russian citizen closely linked to the Wagner group led by Yevgeny Prigozhin has been injured in an assassination attempt in the Central African Republic, according to Prigozhin and Russian officials.
Prigozhin said: “Today he got another package. The instructions for observing security were ignored by Dmitry Syty, who opened the package even though he thought his son was in it. There was an explosion.
A photograph of a son in France was contained in a package sent by the father on November 11. It contained a note saying that next time he would receive his son’s head if ‘the Russians do not get out of the African continent and open the doors for the French.’”
Wagner’s presence in the CAR, where it has trained and fought with the local armed forces, has been controversial. The lucrative diamond trade in central Africa as well as multiple human rights abuses by the army have been linked withWagner and associated entities by CNN.
TheCNN team met with the man when he was involved in the mediation of the conflict in the CAR. He was the founder of a diamond company.
The Central African Republic was occupied by the French for hundreds of years, during which they destroyed the population and stole the wealth of the country. He said that it was headed by a man from Russia and the Central African Republic.
“I have already applied to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation so that it initiates the procedure for declaring France a state sponsor of terrorism, as well as conducting a thorough investigation of the terrorist methods of France and its Western allies – the United States and others.”
The official Russian news agency TASS quoted Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov as saying: “The assassination attempt on the head of the Russian house in the Central African Republic is an inhuman terrorist act that requires strong condemnation.”
The Russian Foreign Ministry said it “strongly condemn[s] this criminal act, which is clearly aimed at hindering the activities of the Russia House in Bangui, and more broadly, harming the successful development of friendly relations between our two countries.”
“We hope that as a result of an operational investigation by the competent authorities of the Central African Republic, those responsible for organizing and committing this atrocity will be identified and punished,” the ministry added.