"At the entrance to the cafe, she was asked if it was a bomb." What is known about the death of military commander Vladlen Tatar

The explosion in the Street Food Bar No. 1 cafe on the University Embankment in St. Petersburg occurred on the evening of April 2, when Maxim Fomin, better known as Vladlen Tatarsky, spoke at the institution of the institution. Tatar died. According to the latest data, 32 people were injured, of which 24 were hospitalized, 10 are in serious condition.

The Russian state media have already reported that the police, on suspicion of involvement in this explosion, announced the wanted list of anti -war activists Daria Trepov and her husband Dmitry Rylov.

The first messages about the explosion in a cafe in the Vasileostrovsky district of St. Petersburg appeared at about 19:00 on April 2. Initially, 15 victims were reported. A few hours after the explosion, the number of victims increased to 25, 19 of them were hospitalized, said the governor of St. Petersburg Alexander Beglov.

The cafe worked an explosive device brought by one of the visitors, RIA Novosti told RIA source. Its capacity was more than 200 grams of TNT, writes BAZA with reference to law enforcement agencies.

It is assumed that the explosive device was hidden inside the figurine, which an unnamed girl brought to a meeting with Vladlen Tatar, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the source. Similar data are given by Mash. According to the telegram channel, the girl gave the Tatar figurine. RIA Novosti wrote that the figurine was examined before the transfer, and the girl who brought her was a familiar Tatar.

One of the visitors of the event Anatoly told the north. Realiy that about two minutes passed between the transfer of the figurine and the explosion. According to him, at first there was a loud cotton, and then the restaurant room was covered with smoke.

Another witness to the explosion, Alice , confirmed the North. Reali that the explosion did not occur immediately after the Tatar opened a gift with a statuette. REN TV TV channel published a video in which Tatar is considering a statuette.

- The girl said that at the entrance to the cafe she was asked if this was not a bomb, so she left the figurine at the entrance. [Before presenting] she went to the entrance, took the box and gave him (Tatar. - SR ). He took her out, we all looked at her, laughed. After that everything happened. Nobody even thought. It was not so that immediately he [the figurine] took it out and everything exploded. No. Someone from the audience said a joke that here is a shachter worker. This figurine is a bust, a head in a golden helmet. It seemed to me from afar that she did not look like him (Tatar. - SR) , ”said Alice.

The witness of the incident Diana Koroleva claims that the girl who gave the figurine, after the explosion, left the cafe with everyone.

- She is 20 years old, blonde. She was dressed in a black trench coat. I drew attention to this, because in St. Petersburg winter, and she is not dressed in winter clothes. She did not undress, sat next to him in three to five meters. It was strange, and therefore remembered. But no one is sure that the figurine exploded, ”said Queen North. Realia.

Daria Trepova, who brought the figurine and who is now suspected of killing the Tatarskoye, 26 years old. Relatives of Trepova were detained, in whose apartment a search was held.

The police are also looking for her husband Trepova - a member of the unregistered Libertarian Party of Russia Dmitry Rylov. He is suspected of complicity in an explosion in a cafe. At the same time, he himself was not present at a meeting with the Tatar, and in the Libertarian party they claim that Rylov was completely in exile.

Daria Trepova and Dmitry Rylov previously participated in anti -war actions in St. Petersburg. Trepov was arrested and 10 days after the protest on the day of the invasion of Russian troops in Ukraine - February 24, 2022. Rylov received 9 days of arrest for participating in the same action.

The story with the statuette in which explosives could be located is one of the versions that the investigation examined, RBC reported with reference to a source in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

"There was a non -fried explosive device with a capacity of 300 to 450 grams in the TNT equivalent. The explosion occurred on the right side of the place where Vladlen Tatarsky was sitting," the agency’s interlocutor said.

The source of the publication also said that the special services knew that an attempt was being prepared on Tatar. At the scene of the explosion, in addition to the police, the Investigative Committee and the Russian Guard, the FSB explosives work.

According to Fontanka, before the cafe belonged to the founder of the Wagner PMC Evgeny Prigozhin. On the weekend, the discussion club of the Cyber Z Front moved here. After the explosion, a statement appeared in his telegram channel: "We took certain security measures, but unfortunately they were not enough. Now we are working with law enforcement agencies and we hope that all the perpetrators will be punished. Unfortunately, we can’t tell you anything else."

According to North. Realiy, a lecture in a cafe on the university embankment was not the only one on this day with a deceased wiren blogger. From 13 to 15 o’clock he performed in the bookstore "Foliage". The meeting there was closed. Now the "foliage" cancels all the closest events until it strengthens security measures.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case under an article on the murder, the department said. The press service of the Ministry of Health reported that the number of victims from the explosion increased to 32 people. Of these, 24 are hospitalized, 10 are in serious condition.

Late in the evening of April 2, after the search, the mother and stepfather were detained suspect in the murder of Blogger Daria Trepova.

- There was a loud sound, all of the houses climbed out. My son called me, he works in the investigative group. Pumping is complete: imagine - come to drink tea in a cafe, and there is an explosion. It is clear that not a simple cafe. We are all people, but suddenly some bastard begins to blow up here, ”says Natalia , a resident of the house where the explosion occurred.

Eugene , who lives in an apartment over the cafe, said that after the explosion, the smell of Gary appeared in the rooms, and figurines and mugs fell from the cabinets.

-The windows of the house are whole, but in my apartment, because of the explosion, everything fell: porcelain figurines fell, a leg broke down at the TV, they don’t let go home. All the rooms were covered with such a burn that happens after the salute, ”said Eugene.

The residents of the house where the explosion occurred for several hours did not let them into their apartments, local residents were told by the correspondent of the North. Realiy. Later they began to let them into the house, but only after they showed their passports with a registration page to employees of the Russian Guard.

Russian propagandists and supporters of Russian propagandists instantly reacted to the death of Vladlen Tatarsky. The main thesis of their comments was the call for the "reckoning" for the death of Tatar. Some of the propagandists called what was happening "terrorist attack", although officially law enforcement agencies have not yet been recognized as a terrorist attack.

The head of Russia Today Margarita Simonyan wrote in social networks: "Well, what? Forget? Forgive?" Member of the Public Chamber, Alexander Malkevich , said that Russian society is waiting for "exceeding at times an answer to this terror unleashed against civilians." Tina Kandelaki , like Simonyan, began to ask about when "the country begins to answer." The activist Ilya Yansen, after the death of Tatarsky, said that “I need terror, which the world has not seen,” and “Ukraine should at this moment blame and howl of hundreds and thousands of widows in the rear”.

The St. Petersburg politician Savva Fedoseev believes that the murder of Tatar is directly related to the Russian war in Ukraine.

- The attack in St. Petersburg occurred because there was a war. And the war came to us for a long time, ”says Fedoseev.

Who is Vladlen Tatar

The real name of Vladlen Tatarsky is Maxim Fomin. Fomin borrowed his pseudonym from Victor Pelevin's book "Generation P".

Fomin was born in the Donetsk region of Ukraine in 1982. After school, he worked at the mine, then opened his business. To do this, he had to get loans, but the company did not bring profit, Fomin-Tatar said.

In December 2011, he was convicted of the armed robbery of the bank. He was serving in Gorlovka. After the start of hostilities in Ukraine in 2014, Fomin fled from the colony and joined the pro -Russian military formation in the Donbass. Later Fomina was again arrested, but later he was pardoned by the head of the so -called "DPR" Alexander Zakharchenko, who was blown up in Donetsk in August 2018.

After pardon, Fomin got into the national police of the so -called "LPR". In a similar structure in the so-called "DPR" it was not taken due to criminal record.

In 2019, he ceased to take part in hostilities against Ukraine, since 2020 he lived in Moscow. The blogger led a wire-telegram channel, which totaled more than 500 thousand subscribers.

After the outbreak of war in Ukraine, Tatar returned to the Donbass and fought on the side of the so -called "LPR".

Tatarsky is most famous of the video , which was recorded on September 30, 2022 in the Kremlin, after Vladimir Putin signed agreements on the inclusion of the occupied territories of Ukraine - "DPR", "LPR", Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions. “We’ll kill everyone, everyone we need to rob. Everything will be like we love,” he said. Tatarsky is also known for supporting both the war and Russian attacks on the civil infrastructure of Ukraine, which is regarded as one of the war crimes.