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World Jewish News
Not a Terrorist Attack, but Illegal Manufacture?
22.02.2009
Lutsk police started criminal proceedings on the charge of "illegal manufacture of explosives" in connection with the attempt to blow up the local synagogue on February 2.
Not an attack, but illegal manufacture? "We will appeal against this decision and address the prosecutor's office, because it was a clearly attempted terrorist act, and that is being hushed up," said the Chairman of Volyn Jewish community Eduard Dolinsky in the interview to the Jewish News Agency.
Earlier, it was unofficially reported that the investigation is conducted by the Security Service of Ukraine, but at the moment the case has been transferred to the police.
The fact that SSU is no longer working on the case was also announced by the Service press secretary Maryna Ostapenko.
It should be reminded that on February 2, at about 9.00 in the ventilation window of the basement of Lutsk synagogue 6 kilograms of explosives were found, which did not explode only because of the vigilance of the head of the Jewish community center Sergei Shvardovsky.
This was an anti-Jewish terrorist attack on a scale unprecedented in the modern history of Ukraine.
Nevertheless, law enforcement agencies have taken great efforts to reduce the significance of the event and conceal the information.
For example, channel "1 +1," which was the first to report about the explosives in the synagogue, later on its website called the bomb a waxwork, citing its own sources.
But the source of this distinguished TV channel clearly bluffed and misled millions of viewers. The explosives turned out to be real, and likewise, as far as the circumstances allow to tell, was the attempt of the terrorist act.
In the meantime, law enforcement agencies prefer to view the tragedy that failed by a mere accident as just an illegal manufacture of explosives.
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