In a video published by one of the companies of the head of the PMC “Wagner” Evgeny Prigozhin, one can see a creepy threat from his side to the European Parliament after the MEPs recognized Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism.

The footage began to be re-circulated on social media, with some announcing that Prigozhin’s staff had handed the MEP an “information briefcase” containing images of a violin case with a bloody sledgehammer, although it is unclear whether these were real or painted on.

However, many observers of the war in Ukraine wondered how Prigozhin’s representative could give such a “gift” to an official of the European Parliament, questioning the authenticity of the images.

However, the founder of the well-known investigative website Bellingcat, Eliot Higgins, clarified the situation, explaining that the video was published by the press service of Concordia, Prigozhin’s company that caters for the Kremlin, noting that it is a package prepared for the European Parliament, which was given to the administrator of the Telegram channel “Cyberfront Z” .

The “Army of Cyber ​​​​​​​​Front Z” is presented in Russia as a pro-Kremlin “people’s movement”, but analysts at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a London-based non-profit organization that specializes in combating online extremism and disinformation, have previously shown that in fact it is simply a “troll farm” used to amplify Russian propaganda messages on the websites and social media pages of some Western publications.

Prigozhin’s “gift” to MEPs, a reference to Wagner’s sadistic murder by mercenaries

The box “gifted” by Prigozhin’s firm appears to be a direct reference to the shocking video that appeared on Russian Telegram channels earlier in November, showing the execution of defecting mercenary “Wagner” with a sledgehammer after being hit by his former associates head against a brick and tied them up. tape it

Prigozhin, who admitted for the first time in late September that he founded Wagner’s mercenary group in 2014, confirmed the recording’s authenticity when asked.

“As for the man who was killed with a sledgehammer, this performance shows that he did not find happiness in Ukraine, but met unfriendly but fair people. I think this movie is called “A Dog Deserves a Dog’s Death,” he declared.

The video message, released by his firm Concordia, came after the European Parliament overwhelmingly passed a resolution declaring Russia a state sponsor of terrorism on Wednesday.

Just a few hours after the historic vote, representatives of the Brussels legislature announced that the European Parliament had become the target of a sophisticated cyber attack and its website had become unavailable due to a DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack.

However, the EP website was back online on Wednesday morning at the time of this article’s publication.

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