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04/04 – Today’s headlines from across the EU

EUROPEAN HEADLINES

BBC Europe – St Petersburg metro bombing suspect ‘from Kyrgyzstan’.  The man suspected of killing 14 people by bombing a St Petersburg train was a native of Kyrgyzstan who obtained Russian citizenship, the Central Asian country’s security service has said. Forty-nine people were injured in the explosion between two underground stations on Monday afternoon. Kyrgyz officials named the suspect as Akbarzhon Jalilov, an ethnic Uzbek born in Osh in 1995.

 

FRANCE

Tactical voting battle toughens on the Left

Now believing he can win the presidential election, Mélenchon wants to attract conviction voters from Hamon’s camp.

GERMANY

Dead and wounded in attack on St Petersburg metro

Bomb exploded / Putin: Will do everything to throw light on it / Gabriel: Deeply dismayed.

ITALY

Terror in Russia, subway massacre

The Attack: fear on the day of the Presidential visit. Survivors: “A thunder, then darkness, screams”. Police is chasing the authors. Bomb explodes in Saint Petersburg: at least 11 dead. Putin, Islamist kamikaze hypothesis.

SPAIN

Bomb leads to bloodbath on St. Petersburg metro

A terrorist left a bag in the wagon before leaving the station. The attack killed 11 people and wounded 45. Vladimir Putin was in the city.

AUSTRIA

Deadly attack on subway of St. Petersburg

During the trip a bomb exploded in a St. Petersburg subway train. The car then went to the Technological Institute station. An explosive set in another station did not detonate.

BELGIUM

Putin’s Russia targeted by terrorismc

A blast in a metro train in Saint Petersburg has cost the life of at least eleven people. Two suspects are being sought.

MALTA

Vigil for the latest bombing victims

A woman lays flowers during a memorial service yesterday near the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, for the dozens of injured and at least 10 dead due to the bomb blast in the St Petersburg metro.

PORTUGAL

Violent fathers and mothers

In 2016 alone, 416 children were found victim of abuse.

SLOVENIA

Time for twenty-seven

Slovenia is the first Member State visited by European Council President Donald after Brexit.

USA

Blast in Russian subway kills 10

President Vladimir Putin said it was too early to identify the cause of the incident in St. Petersburg but didn’t rule out terrorism.

 

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