Moscow bank hostage taker arrested for two months
Moscow’s Presnensky district court has arrested Aram Petrosyan, a businessman who seized a bank in the center of the Russian capital on Wednesday, until October 24, TASS http://tass.com/society/896116 reports.
The motion of the investigators is satisfied, Judge Tereza Zrebets said.
According to the source, his lawyer has announced plans to appeal against the court’s decision.
To remind , Aram Petrosyan seized the Citibank office located at 15, Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street, 800 meters from the Kremlin, at around 6.30 p.m. Moscow Time (1530GMT) on Wednesday.
He had a box wrapped in yellow tape that he claimed was an explosive device and threatened to blow up the office. Police later said it turned out to be a fake bomb. When the man entered the bank, there were six people inside: three clients, two cashiers and a security guard. By 10.00 p.m. Moscow time, the perpetrator freed all hostages and surrendered to the police. During the interrogation, Petrosyan said he did not plan to kill anyone, but wanted to draw attention to the problem of (bankruptcy) by his actions. He later pleaded guilty giving a confession.