The murder of Skrepecky took place on Monday around 10:00 in the town of Biała Podlaska. The perpetrator, who shot his victim several times from close range, ran away. On Thursday, Tusk announced that the authorities had caught the suspect.
“This morning, police officers from the special investigation group of the Regional Police Headquarters in Lublin, near Warsaw, arrested a man suspected of murdering a 44-year-old Russian citizen in the town of Biała Podlaska,” the Lublin police said on the X network. According to Tusk, he is a citizen of Georgia. He described the murder as “state terrorism”, TVP World reported.
Semjon Skrepeckyj was a 44-year-old Russian citizen who immigrated to Poland in 2021. According to him, because of political persecution. Among other things, Skrepeckyj devoted himself to parodying Putin, the Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov or the Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko.
Already on Monday, the Polish authorities stated that they could not rule out that it was a “planned crime”. In addition to the citizen of Georgia, Warsaw detained three other persons in connection with Skrepecký’s murder. At least two of them are Belarusian citizens. They were detained near the Belarusian consulate in the city of Biała Podlaska.
