Lukashenka to Sheiman: “It is you who is guilty first of all!”

At a meeting on the investigation of the bomb blast in early morning on 4 July in the city center Alyaksandr Lukashenka expressed his bewilderment on the fact the incident had happened on the site, controlled by militia and the KGB. “So, how could it happen? How did you guard?” Lukashenka wonders.

He criticised Viktar Sheiman, State Secretary of the Security Council, first of all. “I don’t think, you, Mr Uladzimir, should be on the post after the incident. It is you, who is guilty first of all,” A. Lukashenka said.

“It is not your first the first time you organise this event, you and the head of administration (Henadz Nyavhlas) have been organising similar mass events for ten years on the order of the head of state: he is responsible for a political side, and you - for security,” Interfax quotes A. Lukashenka.

“There was no state secretary on the event. You are to write a report to me, I know more than you what happened there,” Lukashenka emphasised. He noted he had many questions he wanted to be answered.

“It is clear the bomb could be hidden only in shrubs. But I had to go to the crater to order the militia to take people away, shield the epicentre with militiamen,” Lukashenka said. “Don’t you know it themselves? Here professionalism of militia is under question. If it happened, one should have done something,” A. Lukashenka said.

“If a repetition (of Vitsebsk variant) would take place, other people would work at your places,” Alyaksandr Lukashenka stated, addressing representatives of law-enforcing agencies.

As we have informed, as a result of explosion of a home-made device on September 22, 2005 in Vitsebsk about 40 persons were injured. 29 of them were taken to hospitals, 6 of them were operated. A criminal action was brought up on the fact of the explosion on articles relating “Hooliganism” and “attempted homicide” of the Criminal Code of Belarus. Another blast took place on September 14, 2005. As a result of it 2 persons were injured. Culprits haven’t been found in the both cases.

“I had been promised that in two days there would be results. I want to listen about the first results,” the Belarusian leader stated.

“Nobody, not a single enforcement agency, no governmental body will be allowed to retouch or cover up the truth” about those events, the president underlined.