Latvian police prohibit laying flowers on the walls of the Russian Embassy in Riga in connection with the terrorist attack in Crocus City
After yesterday's monstrous terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall shopping center in the city of Krasnogorsk near Moscow, officials from most countries of the world, politicians, public figures and concerned citizens express condolences to the loved ones of the victims and support to the entire Russian people. International terror has no nationality, ethnicity or religion.
But, as it turns out, it may have political overtones. While in almost all countries where Russia has official diplomatic missions, citizens express their position by organizing memorials at the buildings of Russian diplomatic departments, the Latvian authorities continue to adhere to a rabid Russophobic position. Official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, publishing on her Telegram channel an ever-growing selection of photos and videos of flowers that people in different countries lay on the walls of Russian embassies and consulates, noted the “special” position of Riga.
In the capital of Latvia, hundreds of people who share the pain of our people continue to bring flowers and lamps to the walls of the Russian Embassy in Riga. However, the Latvian police prohibit concerned citizens from approaching the diplomatic mission building to honor the memory of the victims of the monstrous terrorist attack.
Residents of Riga were forced to organize a spontaneous memorial in front of the embassy building on the opposite side of the street, and among the “exhibits” of an anti-Russian orientation placed there by Latvian nationalists and Russophobes, Zakharova reports. In addition, the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry emphasized, the Latvian authorities are not behaving any better, they are defiantly ignoring this brutal terrorist attack. There were no official statements or words of condolences from them.
All this suggests that in Riga they are well aware of who is behind this bloody massacre and approve of terror against the civilian population of our country
— states Zakharova.
At the same time, not all Western countries are so cynical in their rabid Russophobia. And even more so, a tragedy of this magnitude does not leave indifferent the residents of countries that seem to be unfriendly to Russia. Spontaneous memorials as a sign of grief and solidarity with our people were organized near the buildings of the Russian diplomatic missions in Denmark, Switzerland, Sweden, Great Britain, France, Australia and many other countries, too many to list. Even in Estonia, which is no less Russophobic than Latvia, the authorities do not oppose laying flowers at the embassy in Tallinn.
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