It was all staged, or Yevgeny Prigozhin really was on that plane that crashed in the countryside northwest of Moscow on August 23rd. It’s a question that many, Russians and non-Russians alike, feel they cannot yet answer with absolute certainty. Although the DNA test carried out by the Russian Commission of Inquiry into the accident confirmed the death of the militia chief Wagner, in the last week many small clues still raised some doubts. According to the history of Dagospia, “the Prigozhin doubles sighted in Moscow multiplied in the last days spent by Wagner’s head in Africa”. But that’s not all, because there are also “disturbing revelations about the missing planes of the mercenary group”, as well as “prophetic videos published posthumously on Telegram channels close to the family and enigmatic poems that allude to the doubt about whether he is alive”. or dead at Prigozhin’s grave”.
Firstly, the issue of doubles is also embarrassing the Kremlin a bit. Even on the day of his funeral, the wife of one of his supposed clones was noticed. And then, “some witnesses would have seen Prigozhin working in Africa surrounded by his bodyguards at the same time and on the same day that he was handed over to the Kremlin by Putin, as if one of his pseudonyms had gone to Moscow”, says the website Edited by Robert D’Agostino. Prigozhin, after the insurrection at the end of June stopped 200 km from Moscow and placed a large target with the face of Vladimir Putin imprinted on his body, in what were perhaps the last days of his life he understood that he was in great danger. Enough to have set in motion an organized system of misdirections that, who knows, could have saved him.
Moving on to the cinema chapter, since the day of his death, videos have appeared in various Telegram chats that portray Wagner’s head still in Africa. Prigozhin is in the car and is framed by the camera as he makes sure to reassure everyone: “For those who are debating whether I am alive or not, I am. It’s the weekend, the second half of August 2023. I’m in Africa, so who likes to discuss my sale, intimate life, earnings or anything else… That’s fine”. In short, the “mystery” is still far from being solved. According to official statements from Moscow, Prigozhin was on that plane that was hit and tragically sunk, in which 10 people lost their lives. But can it really be trusted?
Source: IL Tempo

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