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Kanavalaw, Kavalyow acted alone, investigator says

Dzmitry Kanavalaw and Vyachaslaw Kavalyow acted alone, Andrey Shved, first deputy chairman of the Investigation Committee who was in charge of the subway bombing investigation team, said at a news conference held in Minsk on Friday.

No one was behind Messrs. Kanavalaw and Kavalyow; the media “should not try to create a sensation,” said Mr. Shved.

The two men, both aged 25, were sentenced by a Supreme Court judge to death on November 30 over a series of bomb explosions, including the April 11, 2011 subway bombing that killed 15 people and injured more than 200.

There is one hundred percent certainty based on the outcome of the investigation that they acted alone, he stressed.

When asked about a possible motive for the subway bombing, Mr. Shved said that Mr. Kanavalaw, found guilty of perpetrating the attack, had aimed to “destabilize the situation” in the country.

“The man pitted himself against society in an attempt to fulfill himself,” said the official. “Finally, he had this hobby accompanied by a number of other circumstances… We examined how Kanavalaw had developed since his childhood. There were peculiarities. The results of his actions, including the suffering of people, their grief and destruction, gave him a moral pleasure. In this particular case, a serious deformity of Kanavalaw’s personality occurred.” //BelaPAN