A man took a police station hostage in the southwestern city of Volgograd on Thursday, demanding a meeting with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
Alexei Martynenko, 50, entered the station Thursday afternoon and announced that he had an explosive and was going to blow himself up.
He demanded a jet, 10 million rubles ($342,000) and a face-to-face meeting with Putin to tell him about corruption, the report said. Martynenko was holding a fake bomb made of two videotapes wrapped in foil with wires sticking out, the Pro Volgograd web site reported. He held the station hostage for several hours while police negotiated with him and evacuated people from the neighboring buildings.
He later surrendered to Volgograd’s chief of police. Martynenko served 13 years in prison for murder before being paroled in 2008.
(MT)
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