The vehicle belonged to the young woman’s father, who would have been the first target of this attack. The father and daughter had just participated in a cultural festival near Moscow. Mr. Douguine would have decided to take the road alone at the last moment.
Le Monde with AP and AFP
The daughter of Alexandre Douguine, a Russian nationalist ideologist, close to the Kremlin and sometimes described as “the brain of Putin”, died, on the night of Saturday August 20 to Sunday, August 21, in the explosion of the vehicle that ‘She was driving in the vicinity of Moscow, announced Russian investigators, cited by the media and national press agencies.
This is the explosion of a bomb placed in the SUV that killed Daria Douguina, near the village of Bolchie Viaziomy, about forty kilometers from Moscow, said the Moscow branch of the Russian investigation committee. The young woman “was killed on the scene”.
According to investigators, everything suggests that “the crime was planned in advance and sponsored,” said the press release. An investigation for “homicide” has been opened, adds the committee, in charge of the main criminal investigations in the country. 2> The vehicle belonged to Alexandre Douguine
A relative of the 29 -year -old young woman, Andreï Krasnov, confirmed her death to the TASS news agency . He said the vehicle belonged to the young woman’s father, who would have been the first target of this attack.
“It was her father’s vehicle. [Daria] had another car, but she took that of her father today, while Alexandre went elsewhere. He returned, he was on the scene of the tragedy. From what I understood, Alexander or probably both were the target, “said Krasnov. Images, which could not be verified, seem to show Alexandre Douguine, his head in his hands, standing in front of the vehicle in flames.
The father and the daughter had just participated in a cultural festival, near Moscow. According to Russian media quoting witnesses, they had to return together from this event, but Mr. Douguine would have decided to hit the road alone at the last moment.
Alexandre Douguine, 60, targets since 2014 of American sanctions and the European Union, long argued for the annexation by Moscow of the territories in which Russian -speaking populations live. He is also a promoter of the “Eurasist” doctrine, a kind of alliance between Europe and Asia under the direction of Russia and influences part of the French extreme right.
proud to be sanctioned by the West
In recent years, Ukraine has banned several of its works, notably Ukraine. My war. Geopolitical newspaper and Eurasian revenge of Russia. The influence of the nationalist theorist with the Russian president would have been reduced in recent months, according to some experts.
Daria Douguina was a journalist and political analyst, according to the press release from the Russian investigators. She has repeatedly supported the invasion of Ukraine by Moscow and was sanctioned, earlier this year, by the British and American authorities for “disinformation” online in connection with the war in Ukraine. The BBC thus recalls that it had described the latter as a “conflict of civilizations” in an interview and declared himself proud to be among the people sanctioned by the West.
No suspect was identified immediately and no one claimed the attack. An adviser to the Ukrainian presidency, Mikhaïlo Podoliak, denied any involvement of Ukraine in the explosion. “Ukraine has no doubt nothing to do with yesterday’s explosion because we are not a criminal state,” he said during an interview on television.
The President of the self -proclaimed Republic of Donetsk, Denis Pouchiline, castigated On Telegram of “crop abjects”, directly accusing “terrorists of the Ukrainian regime”. On the same network, the spokesperson for Russian diplomacy, Maria Zakharova, considered that “if the Ukrainian track is confirmed [Ait] (…), it will be [it] in place by the kyiv regime “.