MOSCOW, April 4 Daria Trepova's interests in the case of a terrorist attack in a cafe in St. Petersburg are being defended by lawyer Daniil Berman, who is also a lawyer for the person arrested last week The Wall Street Journal journalist Evan Gershkovich, reports a correspondent from the Moscow Basmanny Court.
Berman is Trepova's lawyer by agreement. Previously, in the same role, he was supposed to defend Gershkovich during the consideration of a petition for his arrest, but the defense lawyer was not allowed to attend the meeting.
An explosion took place on Sunday in a cafe on the Universitetskaya Embankment in St. Petersburg, killing the well-known war correspondent Vladlen Tatarsky (real name Maxim Fomin), and dozens wounded. The next day, a suspect was detained — a Petersburger Daria Trepova, who later became an accused.
Initially, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case on murder in a generally dangerous way, and then toughened the article to a terrorist attack and trafficking in explosives. The punishment is up to life imprisonment, but Trepova does not face it. According to Russian law, a woman in the country cannot be sentenced indefinitely, the maximum sentence is 25 years.