At the site of the funeral of the "Pskov paratroopers" unknown people attacked journalists: "They ask a lot of unnecessary questions"

At the journalists of the Internet publication "Russian Planet" and the Rain television channel Ilya Vasyunin and Vladimir Romensky were attacked in the cemetery near Pskov, where correspondents arrived to search for the graves of the Russian military who died in the Donbass.

“Unknown attacked the journalists of the rain and the“ Russian planet ”of Romensky and Vasyunin. They are kept by force in the cemetery in the ramps,” the rain TV channel reports .

As Romensky said on the air of the channel, with them the correspondents of Novaya Gazeta and the St. Petersburg Internet publication Fontanka.ru were also sent to the cemetery.

The Rain correspondent said that when they arrived in the cemetery, they were already waiting for "several cars." “We were told that we ask too many unnecessary questions,” Romensky said. Unknown pierced two wheels of the car on which journalists moved. The correspondent did not rule out that surveillance of them continues to this day.

Earlier today, unknown people threatened reporters with reprisals in Pskov. “We and I have now promised that if we do not leave Pskov, then“ there are a lot of swamps ”,“ they won’t find us ”and“ do not have to find out anything, ”Vasyunin wrote on his Twitter.

We were attacked in a cemetery, where the paratroopers were probably buried. We pierced the wheels and tried to break the glasses, the legs took Pic.twitter.com/vmerc8L0H6

- Vladimir Romensky (@romenskiy) August 26, 2014

According to Slon.ru Internet portal, journalists plan to apply for attackers to the police. The investigation of the attack was promised to take personal control of the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Pskov Region Boris Govorun. In addition, Pskov previously attacked the editor -in -chief of the Petersburg agency Telegraph Sergey Kovalchenko. "Two attacked, took the camera. Now we find on the spot and called the police," he said in a commentary Slon.ru.

Under Pskov on August 25, closed funerals of several fighters of the Airborne Forces took place. Only relatives and relatives of military personnel were allowed to the farewell ceremony. Before that, there were reports that Russian paratroopers could participate in the hostilities in Ukraine. “The attacks of bandits on journalists in Pskov only confirm suspicions regarding the participation of the Airborne Division there in the war against Ukraine,” suggested the journalist of Echo of Moscow Vladimir Bartholomeev.