Female assassin accused of killing pro-Putin blogger after giving him sculpture laden with explosives

Female assassin accused of killing pro-Putin blogger after giving him sculpture laden with explosives

NY POST 

A Russian female anti-war activist has been detained for allegedly blowing up a notorious pro-Putin blogger after handing him a sculpture laden with explosives inside a packed St. Petersburg café.

Russian’s Ministry of the Interior said Monday it had apprehended 26-year-old Daria Trepova in connection with the killing of Maxim Fomin, known by the pseudonym Vladlen Tatarsky.

The Kremlin labeled the high-profile assassination of Fomin a “terrorist act” organized by Ukraine with support from a group tied to imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny.        

Tatarsky was speaking at a political discussion taking place at Street Food Bar No. 1 when the eatery was rocked by a powerful blast that killed the blogger and injured more than 30 people, eight of them critically.

Surveillance video recorded a short time before the attack showed a light-haired woman in a long dark coat walking into the St. Petersburg café with a large cardboard box believed to have contained the figurine packed with explosives…

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