The bomb attached to the car of the daughter of Putin’s ‘ideologue’ was detonated by remote control in an attack claimed by an unknown National Republican Army that intends to “overthrow Putin”
Half an hour before she died, Daria Dugina joked: “I am my father’s bodyguard.” Her father, Alexander Daugin, and several friends present at the Tradition festival laughed heartily. “But it’s true, She protected him from fans or crazy people in the city,” recalls the founder of the Tsargrad television channel, Konstantin Malofeev, a close friend of the family and one of the last people to see Daria alive. She and her father headed to the parking lot to pick up her car and drive back to Moscow. Apparently several friends caught Alexander’s eye and convinced him to come back with them. This is how they left the parking lot of the literary festival (where Alexander had given a conference) at 9:25 p.m.: the young woman in the family SUV and her father, considered the ideologue of Vladimir Putin’s politics, immediately behind in a second car.
Since she turned the ignition key, Daria had ten minutes to live. Her Toyota Land Cruiser Prado blew up while she was speeding along Mozhaisk highway. The explosion was tremendous. The vehicle jumped into the air engulfed in flames. It crashed into a fence. Daria was thrown onto the asphalt by the effect of the shock wave. She died on the spot. In the nearby town of Bolshie Vyazemy the windows of many houses shook.
The first police patrols that arrived at the scene immediately thought that one of the car’s gas cylinders had burst. An accident. However, the characteristics of the explosion and the debris collected showed that the detonation was produced by a homemade bomb loaded with 400 grams of TNT and attached under the driver’s seat. The investigation indicated this morning that the device was detonated by remote control. “Presumably, the car was monitored and its movement controlled,” anti-terrorist sources have pointed out to the Tass agency.
The confirmation of this point could complicate the investigation and prolong it over time. Several options are now open to researchers. The first: if the bomb was activated by means of a telephone call, its direct perpetrator could be miles away, even in the center of Moscow, and would have had the help of one or more collaborators to place the explosive in the car while it was parked at the festival venue. In the event that the terrorists had detonated the device on sight after following the vehicle, an option that is under study, the investigators have the doubt about who was its recipient. Until now, everything indicates that the target of the attack was Alexánder Duguin and that the death of his daughter was the result of a fatal causality. However, if the criminals were at the scene, they would have seen that only Daria rode in the SUV.
unattended parking
Russian experts say the operation was perfectly planned. The terrorists took advantage of the hours that the SUV was in the parking lot to place the bomb. There were no cameras in the compound. The square belonged to the plots reserved for guests of honor, but it had been assigned to Dauguin at random. The only policemen were tens of meters away, regulating traffic. No one did any security checks. Counterterrorism sources say the terrorists had more than enough time to plant the device.
Alexander Daugin and his friends stopped on the road just after the explosion. They saw how the car burned on all four sides. The nationalist leader threw his hands to his head. He later he had to be admitted to a hospital. Several media have echoed this morning a reflection of his published just on August 20, 2021 on the networks: “What does not kill me, kills another…”.
Dauguin, called by some the ‘Rasputin’ of the Kremlin despite the fact that he has rarely visited the seat of government, is an ultra-nationalist defender of Russia’s expansionist theory and its conversion into a superpower by merging with the former Soviet republics. He is considered the inspiration for Putin’s ideas and the invasion of Ukraine. Sanctioned by the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom for his “racist” ideology, the philosopher acknowledged days ago that he had received death threats for his project to restore the USSR.
Against “Putinism”
The Moscow Law Enforcement Center today described the murder of the 29-year-old political scientist as a “national emergency” and voices are growing that point to the “Ukrainian track” behind the attack, although the kyiv government has denied. This morning, some Russian media also speculated on the alleged involvement of Western intelligence services.
However, at this point the National Republican Army comes into play, a hitherto unknown organization that calls itself a group of “partisans” dedicated to “overthrowing Putin” and that this morning claimed responsibility for the attack. Analysts still doubt whether to give it credibility or directly consider it a ‘fake’.
Ilya Ponomarev, a former member of the Russian Duma who lives in exile in kyiv, is the main promoter of this version. According to him, this attack “opens a new page in the Russian resistance to Putinism.” The former left-wing parliamentarian, the only one who in 2014 voted against the annexation of Crimea, announced that this organization is “prepared to carry out more attacks inside Russia”, possibly against oligarchs, high-level officials and security agency personnel. ». In fact, a well-known military commentator in the country has reported receiving death threats in a message telling him that he “will suffer the same fate” as Duguin’s daughter. In one way or another, several analysts agree that the deadly attack has moved the war inside Russia itself.
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