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BBC SPIES ATTACKED IN SOUTHERN RUSSIA
The Unhived Mind
BBC crew attacked by unidentified people in southern Russia
Published time: September 18, 2014 12:31 Get short URL
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A BBC crew has been attacked by persons as yet unknown in Astrakhan in southern Russia. Their equipment was damaged and the broadcaster has launched a formal complaint to the Russian authorities.
When the group left the café, where they had stopped for lunch and approached their vehicle, they “were confronted and attacked by at least three aggressive individuals,” wrote Steven Rosenberg, the BBC’s Moscow correspondent.
“Our cameraman was knocked to the ground and beaten,” he added.
According to Rosenberg, the attackers “grabbed the BBC camera, smashed it on the road and took it away in their getaway car.”
Then the group spent more than “four hours at the police station being questioned by investigators,” he added.
After returning from police authorities, the group found that the recorded material left in the car had been deleted.
“The hard drive of our main computer and several memory cards had been wiped clean,” wrote Rosenberg.
The group was investigating reports of alleged Russian servicemen being killed near the Russian-Ukrainian border.
The southern Russian city of Astrakhan is located nearly 1,000 km from the city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, where hostilities have been taking place.
The BBC crew is now safe in Moscow.
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According to the press office of Astrakhan region’s interior ministry, the authorities have opened “a criminal case” after police received a report of an attack on a cameraman who had been “beaten and robbed by unidentified persons.”
In the meantime, the BBC has lodged a formal protest with the Russian government concerning the incident.
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theunhivedmind says:
Please be aware that the BBC is a covert mouthpiece of British Intelligence and therefore should not be allowed to step one foot into Russia and thus a ban should be made immediately in order to put a stop to the New Venice Empire tyranny. May I remind you all that zionist Neil Matherson a BBC Manager attacked George Galloway the other day.
-= The Unhived Mind