The mine near the Hasidic synagogue in Moscow was intended for a businessman

On the evening of April 20, an explosion was prevented in Moscow at the synagogue of the Lubavitcher Hasidim, located on Bolshaya Bronnaya Street. According to IA "Rosbalt" , a resident of one of the nearby houses Petr Yartsev, while walking his dog, noticed that a young man dressed in a black jacket was running away from the place near the wall of the synagogue where his car was parked. Yartsev came up to check if everything was in order with the car, and found two plastic bags and a burning Fickford cord. After putting out the cord, he called the police.

The sappers who arrived at the scene opened the packages and found containers in which, according to their assumption, there could be a poisonous substance. Therefore, the residents of neighboring houses were urgently evacuated. When the explosive device was defused, it turned out that the containers contained about 5 kg of saltpeter, picric acid and aluminum powder. FSB took up the search for criminals.

This is not the first such incident with this synagogue. On July 25, 1999, an improvised explosive device was found in her building during a children's party. Then the bomb was taken out into the street before the explosion occurred.

On April 21, the Moscow police department reported that packages with explosives near the synagogue were found by police and that they did not pose a danger, since they did not have detonators.

Kirill Mazurin, deputy head of the information and public relations department of the Moscow police department, said that this incident had nothing to do with the synagogue.

Sources

• Explosion of synagogue prevented in central Moscow // IA "Rosbalt". 2003. April 21.
• Explosive packages found near synagogue are not dangerous // Religion and Mass Media. 2003. April 21.
• Bogomolov A. "The synagogue would not be enough // News. 2003. April 22.