Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that the suspect in the murder of artist Simeon Skrybitski was arrested in Poland.
The name of the detainee was not revealed. Donald Tusk said he used a Georgian passport. It is not known whether he holds the citizenship of any other country.
Lublin police said that the suspect “used a passport issued in the name of a 36-year-old Georgian citizen.” He was arrested on the morning of June 18 near Warsaw. The police report published a photo of the man detained in the apartment, but the detainee’s face is hidden.
According to the information source Oneh, the detainee used forged documents. It is assumed that he was born in Chechnya.
Tusk added that the intelligence services are working to determine who ordered the crime to be committed.
Russian action artist Semyon Skrybitsky was killed on June 15 in the city of Biala Podlaska. Two Belarusian citizens were initially arrested in connection with the murder, including the taxi driver who brought the assassination attempt participants from Warsaw. Later on them ReleasedOnly to discover that they had nothing to do with the murder.
Skrybitsky is known for his caricatures of, for example, Vladimir Putin and Ramzan Kadyrov. The artist left for Poland in 2021 for fear of persecution. On June 12 – three days before the murder – he organized a mass meeting in front of the Russian embassy in Berlin. The artist brought a painting of Putin in Stalin’s arms to the building of the diplomatic mission. After this action, Skrybitsky received threats, which he wrote about on his channel in a telegram on the day of the murder.