An attack “too glaring to the point of seeming almost unbelievable”. Commenting on the death of Yevgeny Prigozhin, Wagner’s boss who crashed in Russia with his jet together with his deputy and eight other people, is Fausto Biloslavo, an expert journalist and war correspondent. During the Thursday 24 August episode of Controcorrente estate, on Rete 4, Biloslavo reviews the weak points of the reconstructions that we have read and heard from the moment the jet crashed.
We were talking about a “too striking” death, far from the “style” of Russian President Vladimir Putin. “Let’s remember that he is a former KGB officer and has always used systems that are not so Hollywood” to eliminate opponents and opponents, explains the journalist who recalls the many excellent corpses of the recent past killed with film methods. Poison microcapsules injected with an umbrella, polonium tea, very little accidental falls from the balcony. In May, after Prigozhin’s revolt, “I said he was a dead man walking and that he’d better stay away from windows and tea,” comments the journalist.
That’s not the only thing that doesn’t add up. “Someone killed him but doing it in the stretch between Moscow and St. Petersburg is really too striking – continues Biloslavo – some Intelligence experts recalled that Prigozhin had just returned from Africa on the same plane: they couldn’t make him crash in some desert lost in the Sahel, perhaps by simulating a mechanical failure? Because these are the methods of Russian intelligence”, argues the war correspondent who nevertheless admits: “Perhaps Putin wanted to send a message” to his opponents.
Then there is the video that shows the jet losing altitude and crashing. In the last few hours there has been talk of a bomb on the plane, a thesis that does not fully convince Biloslavo. “I looked at the images again and again, what you notice is that it couldn’t have been a bomb on board: the cabin would have exploded. A bomb in the undercarriage? Not very easy, the plane isn’t big and they should have placed it in Moscow. Stay there. “hypothesis – he concludes – of a small surface-to-air missile”. Then there is another element, today’s speech in which Vladimir Putin says that Wagner’s boss was a good businessman who made mistakes. It is in turn “a mistake, he pronounced Prigozhin’s epitaph”, notes the journalist.
