State media accused the BYPOL Foundation and the opposition of carrying out terrorist attacks in Belarus and spoke about several detainees
TV channel “Belarus-1” announced on Sundaythat the Belarusian authorities prevented a series of terrorist attacks, which trained “representatives of the reaction recognized in the country by the organization BYPOL and the fugitive opposition, the so-called transitional cabinet.” The channel also reported on the detention of several people who were approved by BYPOL.
BYPOL was a congress in 2020: this association of former security forces is engaged in exposing repressions in Belarus. It was her advice that revealed the identities of people who were involved in Roman Bondarenko’s club in Minsk. They also published records of beatings of protesting security officials and wiretapping records of employees of the KGB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Investigative Committee and the prosecutor’s office.
On November 8, 2021, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus recognized the BYPOL initiative and the Peramoga plan as “extremist adoption”. Two days later, a criminal case was opened against BYPOL and the “Peramoga” plan for the creation of an “extremist entity.”
“Belarus 1” said that the delayed frequencies were received from BYPOL and the Belarusian opposition “the task of planting bombs, as well as information on where to get incendiary mixtures”: BYPOL representatives for their part reportswho represents Lukashenka, a share of the fake channel “Peramoga” and spreads false information through it.
“The detainees testify and are ready to control the investigation,” described in the story.
“Belarusian law enforcement officials state that this initiative is nothing more than a project of Western intelligence services, generously funded and developed at the time,” Gennady Kazakevich, deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, also says in the state television report. Ukraine, this project involves the forced overthrow of state power in the republic.