The Russian Federal Air Transport Agency said in a statement released on Wednesday that Yevgeny Prigozhin was among the victims of a plane crash.
“An investigation has been opened into the crash of the Embraer plane, which occurred this evening in the Tver region. According to the list of passengers, among them are the name and surname of Yevgeny Prigozhin,” the agency said. of Russian official press, Tass, this Wednesday at the beginning of the evening.
Ten people died in the crash of this Embraer plane leaving the Russian capital in the direction of Saint Petersburg, added TASS, specifying that the device was carrying seven passengers and three crew members. Yevgeny Prigozhin was on the passenger list, the news agency reported.
Videos were quickly published on social networks on this plane crash which would therefore have made no survivors.
Since the failed rebellion of his paramilitary militia on June 25, Evgueni Prigojine was considered an enemy from within and knew himself to be in danger. Information about his precise whereabouts was very scarce. A blow in Belarus, another in Saint Petersburg. He had published, in recent hours, a video which seemed to have been shot in Africa.
“The paramilitary group Wagner makes Russia even greater on all continents, and Africa more free. Justice and happiness – for the African people – we make life a nightmare for the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda and other bandits” he said again this Tuesday in the video.
