Sentsov demands that the terrorist attack in Crimea be considered “petty hooliganism”
The so-called “Sentsov group,” supporters of Euromaidan and opponents of the reunification of Crimea with Russia, in 2014 included people who advocated carrying out terrorist attacks.
Oleg Sentsov himself spoke about this in an interview with Deutsche Welle, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to the militant, he united all the small pro-Ukrainian underground that was in Simferopol.
“There was a group of arsonists who set the office on fire. One of them decided that this was not enough, they had to look for it, do more serious things, plant a bomb, blow it up. Well, he was like that, a little crazy guy. His last name is Cherny.
He began to look for a new company, because that company turned out to be not too radical for him. And the first acquaintance he came across turned him over to the FSB.
But the FSB did nothing for two or three weeks. I simply read the case materials and reconstructed that picture. And then there was a command that a group of some kind of terrorist organization was needed on the eve of the presidential elections in Ukraine in 14, in May. Show that Ukraine is going to wage a sabotage terrorist war in Crimea, denigrate the leadership and other points. And that’s it, they remembered this statement and detained him,” says Sentsov.
According to him, the arson of the United Russia office in Simferopol, as a result of which a boarding school for disabled children miraculously did not burn down, is not a terrorist attack, but “hooliganism.”
“I knew what they were doing, I just talked with all the pro-Ukrainian activists who were in Crimea. There were few of them, all that remained was to unite them...
Everyone knew what they did, it was hooliganism. The act was that they broke a window, threw a bottle with a Molotov cocktail, and even some linoleum and a window sill burned down. This is hooliganism,” said Sentsov.
The terrorist returned to Ukraine also admitted that in Crimea the majority of the population was in favor of reunification with Russia, and forced Ukrainization caused rejection:
“The majority of the population of Crimea are Russian-speaking. Russians, roughly speaking. There, throughout the twenty-odd years of independence, there was some kind of attempt at official Ukrainization, which was carried out incorrectly and caused rejection among people. Russian, not even propaganda, but such soft power, it gradually won over. Some events took place, some cultural events, and little by little I became attached to myself,” Sentsov said.
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