Posted on 09/26/2004 7:39:29 AM PDT by knighthawk
The man arrested last week for allegedly trying to kill President Vladimir Putin with a car bomb was interrogated by 150 police officers before he died. Police said he died of a heart attack. The Observer can reveal that the body of Alexander Pumane, 38, from St Petersburg, was so badly beaten that his relatives were unable to identify him.
Pumane was arrested at 1am last Saturday after he parked a Lada near the foreign ministry. Police found explosives, two anti-personnel mines and a container of unidentified liquid in the car.
Pumane, whom officials insisted was under the influence of drugs, was questioned for three hours.
The Izvestiya newspaper said he was interrogated by up to 150 people. Pumane said he had been paid $1,000 (£550) - but refused to say by whom - to drive two cars to Kutuzovsky Prospekt, a road used daily by the presidential limousine.
After hours in custody, Pumane was rushed to hospital, and by 8.30am he was dead.
His ex-wife Natalia said: 'I was told about his death on Saturday and then invited to the prosecutor's office in St Petersburg. They told me Alexander was brought to hospital in a state of drug intoxication and with bruising over all the body.'
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Gheesh.........Did sells tickets?
Well if the guy wasn't sexually humiliated there shouldn't be any problem. The only question in my mind is since 150 officers did the interigation, how did they decide who would go first?
Did sells tickets? ==== Did they sell tickets........
NEED MORE COFFEE............
"Interrogated" by 150 officers? That's some interrogation in a very short span of time.
Good!
And...?
That's worse than the seventy-two Virginians.
Like to see that on "Law and Order".
Cost Containment rather than Costly Detainment.
Let's send Hamdi to Russia...
Some end stage drug addict is paid by IslamoFascist agents to plant a car bomb. I guess you had to stand in line to "interrogate" this doomed loser.
Yeah, 150 police can ask an awful lot of questions. Funny how these Russian suspects have a way of dying in custody.
Thank goodness they did not put underwear on his head!
Good guys, bad guys. Who wins? Guy with White Hat!! Okay!!
Some element of the story is not being told here. This might be a type of coded message to someone.
I've also noticed that many never make it to the stage of "custody".
Yeah. That's too bad. I feel really, really horrible for a would-be assassin/terrorist.
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