The German company DHL reported Wednesday the arrest of four of its employees allegedly involved in the explosion of a parcel bomb near the Russian Embassy in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic (CAR).
«Following an incident related to the delivery of a shipment to our service station in Bangui, Central African Republic, on December 16, 2022, we can confirm that four DHL employees were detained by local authorities,» a company representative told TASS news agency.
Police had already detained seven people, including postal workers, who may have been involved in the attack on December 20. However, after interrogation, they were released.
As a result of the explosion, the director of a Russian cultural center, Dimitri Siti, was seriously injured. The man, who was later evacuated and transferred to Russia, had previously received a number of death threats, local security forces said.
Wagner Group founder Yevgeni Prigozhin pointed directly to France as being responsible for the attack. The company’s press service posted a statement on his behalf on its Telegram account in which it described Siti as «a patriot» and detailed that it had already received a charge in November «sent from Togo containing a photograph of his son, who lives in France.»
Prigozhin, an oligarch close to Russian President Vladimir Putin, said that the package «contained a note saying that next time he would receive his son’s head». He also denounced that Siti was in grave danger.
However, the French Foreign Minister, Catherine Colonna, asserted that Prigozhin’s words were «false» and stressed that it was a «good example of how Russian propaganda works».
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
