The DHL company confirms the arrest of four of its employees for the explosion of a bomb in RCA

Feb. 1 () –

The German company DHL has reported on Wednesday the arrest of four of its employees allegedly involved in the explosion of a package bomb near the Russian Embassy in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic (CAR).

“Following an incident related to the delivery of a shipment to our service station in Bangui, Central African Republic, on December 16, 2022, we can confirm that four DHL employees were detained by local authorities,” the agency reported. TASS news a representative of the company.

The Police already arrested seven people on December 20, including postal workers, who could have been involved in the attack. However, after interrogation, they were released.

Due to the explosion, the director of a Russian cultural center, Dimitri Siti, was seriously injured. The man, who was later evacuated and transferred to Russia, had previously received a series of death threats, local security forces said.

The founder of the Wagner Group, Yevgeni Prigozhin, pointed directly to France as responsible for the attack. The company’s press service published a statement on his behalf on his Telegram account in which he described Siti as “a patriot” and detailed that he had already received a load in November “sent from Togo containing a photograph of his son , who lives in France”.

Prigozhin, an oligarch close to Russian President Vladimir Putin, said the package “contained a note saying that next time he would receive his son’s head.” He also denounced that Siti was in grave danger.

However, French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna called Prigozhin’s words “false” and stressed that it was a “good example of how Russian propaganda works.”