Eyewitness Sergei, who immediately ran to the scene of the explosion of the car of Daria Dugina, daughter of the Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin, told Izvestia about the first minutes after the incident.
“I thought it was like some kind of bomb exploded. The impact was one of a kind. <...> I ran here in my slippers. I see the car is on fire. I stood for a bit – there are no firefighters, ”he said.
According to Sergei, other eyewitnesses called emergency services.
“Then the tank exploded. There was a strong explosion. The fire flew to the upper wires, the electricians arrived, ”he added.
According to the man, then two or three more weaker pops were heard.
Sergei told reporters that the girl was thrown out of the driver’s seat along with the roof.
According to him, firefighters arrived before the call. They put out the fire.
“The fire was strong. They put out the fire with one car – all the water was gone, ”the man said.
Earlier on Sunday, eyewitnesses living near the scene told Izvestia that the explosion was very powerful. So, one of the local residents said that at about 21:32 he heard a pop, from which “glasses rang in the house”. According to one version of the investigation, Alexander Dugin himself was the target of the assassination attempt. This is confirmed by the fact that the explosives were installed on his car.
The night before, Daria Dugina (Platonova) in her Toyota Land Cruiser was heading to Moscow from the village of Zakharovo, where the Tradition festival was held. At about 21:35 on Mozhayskoye Highway near the village of Bolshiye Vyazemy, the car exploded at full speed, after which it pulled over to the side of the road, crashed into a building and caught fire. As specified by the investigating authorities, the female driver died instantly. It was established that Dugina was indeed driving.
The version of an improvised explosive device planted in the car became the key to the incident. According to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, the crime was pre-planned and is custom-made. An explosive device was planted under the bottom of the car. A criminal case has been initiated under paragraph “e” of Part 2 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (murder committed in a generally dangerous way).
A participant in the Tradition festival, Petr Lundstrem, in a conversation with Izvestia, expressed the opinion that the organizers of the crime may have been preparing an attempt on her father. According to him, Dugin was supposed to travel in this car, but before leaving he decided to transfer to another car.