The Belarusian State News Agency reported on the 14th that at a press conference on the Ryanair incident held in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, Dmitry Gora, chairman of the Belarusian Commission of Inquiry, said that Belarus is preparing to seek investigations on the Ryanair incident. International legal aid.
Dmitry Gora said that at present, people are most interested in finding out the truth. The core is to find the email about the bomb threat. The email was sent through ProtonMail. The server is under the jurisdiction of Switzerland. Therefore, Belarus hopes Able to cooperate with Switzerland on this issue, but did not receive a sufficient response from the Swiss side.
On May 23, local time, Minsk, Belarus, an Irish Ryanair passenger plane landed at the Belarusian capital Minsk International Airport due to a bomb threat, and then took off again and landed at its destination, Vilnius, Lithuania.
The picture shows the flight landing at Vilnius International Airport in Lithuania.
At the press conference, Major General Igor Golub, commander-in-chief of the Air Force and Air Defense Forces of the Belarusian Armed Forces, reiterated that the Ryanair plane was not intercepted at that time.
He said that relevant data has confirmed that Ryanair’s plane was not intercepted or forcibly turned around from the national border and was forced to land.
In addition, the Belarusian opposition figure Protasevich also attended the press conference that day.
An Irish airliner of Ryanair made an emergency landing at the Belarusian capital Minsk International Airport on May 23 due to bomb threats.
Subsequently, the Belarusian opposition announced that the Belarusian opposition person Protasevich on board had been detained by the Belarusian government.
After the incident, the United States and the European Union announced sanctions against Belarus.
(Headquarters reporter Wang Jinyan)