Bortnikov: The cause of the crash A321 was a terrorist attack

The reason for the crash of the A321 aircraft over the Sinai was a terrorist attack. As TASS reports , the director of the FSB Alexander Bortnikov stated this. As he reported to Vladimir Putin, traces of explosives of foreign production were discovered on the fragments of the liner.

According to the director of the FSB, the cause of the crash of the A321 was an explosion of a home -made device with a capacity of up to 1 kilogram in TNT equivalent, "as a result of which the" collapse "of the aircraft in the air occurred, which explains the spread of the parts of the aircraft fuselage at a large distance."

For information about those involved in the explosion, a reward of $ 50 million was announced .

Putin said that the guilty people will be found and punished. "This is not the first time Russia is faced with barbaric terrorist crimes, most often for no apparent reason, external or internal, as it was with an explosion at the Volgograd station at the end of 2013. We have not forgotten anyone and nothing," the president said. “The murder of our people in Sinai is among the most bloody crimes in the number of victims. And we will not wipe tears from our soul and heart. It will remain with us forever. But this will not prevent us from finding and punishing criminals,” Putin emphasized. “We must do this without a statute of limitations, know them all by name. We will look for them wherever they hide. We will find them at any point in the planet and punish them,” the president added.

Everyone who tries to assist the terrorists should know that the consequences of attempts by such hiding will lie completely on their shoulders, Putin emphasized. He instructed special services to focus on finding involved in the attack. The President added that Russia will turn to foreign partners with a request to help find the guilty in the A321 disaster in Egypt.

The plane, heading from Sharm Esh-Sheikh to St. Petersburg, crashed in the morning on October 31 shortly after departure. There were 217 passengers on board, of which 24 children, and seven crew members. All of them died. This is the largest disaster in the history of Russian and Soviet civil aviation.

On November 5, British Prime Minister David Cameron handed over to Putin the information on which London concluded about the terrorist attack as the cause of the disaster. This was announced on Tuesday by the official representative of the Foreign Ministry of the United Kingdom, Georgina Baker.

On November 17, the Western media reported that the Egyptian authorities detained two employees of the Sharm Esh-Sheikh airport suspected of helping terrorists. Later, this information was refuted - the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Egypt reported that it "was completely unsure of reality."