Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Reinsalu on Friday threatened Yevgeni Prigozhin, a Russian oligarch sympathetic to Russian President Vladimir Putin, with handcuffs after the founder of the Wagner Group sent a bloody hammer to the seat of the European Parliament.
In response to the recent video broadcast both by local Russian media and social networks, which shows a hammer with blood on its hilt and the Wagner logo on the top of the mallet, Reinsalu has threatened Prigozhin to send handcuffs to the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
The threatening gesture of the group’s founder, reported earlier by ‘The Moscow Times’, came shortly after the European Parliament declared Russia, with 494 votes in favor, 58 against and 44 abstentions, a state sponsor of terrorism.
Apart from the hammer, the Russian leader, who has even been called ‘Putin’s chef’, has answered this Friday to a question asked by a Finnish journalist of the newspaper ‘Helsingin Sanomat’ about foreign fighters in the group, to which the founder of Wagner has answered that there are about 20 Finnish nationals among the fighters.
«They are fighting in a British battalion (as part of Wagner), whose commander is a U.S. citizen, a former Marine Corps general,» the group’s founder has indicated, the Kommersant daily has reported.
