Students from Tomsk were called to Center “E” after a bomb was reported at Navalny’s meeting with volunteers

Employees of the Tomsk Center for Countering Extremism (Center “E”) called local students for explanations after a meeting between Alexei Navalny and volunteers from his campaign headquarters had to be interrupted due to a false report of an explosive device. about this . Alena Khlestunova, coordinator of the election headquarters, told TV2

On March 17, during a meeting between Navalny and headquarters volunteers , police officers came to the building on Belentsa Street and demanded to leave the premises due to a report of a bomb threat. After this, there were no reports of the discovery of an explosive device.

“They called me and introduced themselves as employees of the center for combating extremism,” a student named Alexey told TV2. — They asked me to come today and testify in a criminal case, but they did not explain which criminal case. I said that I work until the evening and then I’m busy. Then, they say, come tomorrow to testify. I contacted Navalny's headquarters in Tomsk. I was advised to find out what kind of criminal case it was and to say that I would not come without a summons. I explained this to the employees of the center for combating extremism, they told me that they needed testimony from me about the bomb at Navalny’s headquarters.”

According to Khlestunova, three TSPU students went to talk to the employees of Center “E”. “A student contacted me; she was at the E center. She was called to the dean's office, given a summons and sent to the police. The police asked her what she knew about Navalny, whether she was at the opening of the headquarters, whether she was a volunteer, and who from her circle was volunteering at Navalny’s headquarters. She says that several times the employees of Center “E” asked her again whether she was definitely not a volunteer,” she said.

The TV2 article states that the students were summoned to Center “E” regarding a case initiated under Article 208 of the Criminal Code (organization of an illegal armed group or participation in it). In a conversation with Mediazona, Ksenia Fadeeva, an employee of Navalny’s headquarters, clarified that we are talking about Article 207 of the Criminal Code (knowingly false report about an act of terrorism).

TV2 notes that the police also called a 17-year-old schoolboy for a conversation.