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Published 20 November, 2009, 15:23
Edited 20 November, 2009, 22:27
A criminal investigation is underway following a shooting in southern Moscow yesterday. One priest, Father Daniil, was killed and another, Father Vladimir, critically wounded.
According to some news sources, a masked man wearing black opened fire in the victims’ church. The killer entered the St. Thomas the Apostle church on Thursday night and opened fire with a 9-mm automatic pistol, deliberately targeting its rector, Daniil Sysoyev, a well-known Russian Orthodox priest. He then fled on foot.
The priest died in a hospital after sustaining head and chest wounds.
Police are investigating the crime scene.
“It is a terrible tragedy,” Vladimir Legoyda, a spokesman for the Russian Orthodox Church, told Ria Novosti news agency.
“The murder of a priest in a church, as any other murder, is a grievous sin and a direct violation of the Ten Commandments,” he said.
Sysoyev, 35, was well-known for his missionary activities and the fight against sectarianism and occultism.
Investigators suspect that the murder was premeditated and had religious motives because Sysoyev had received death threats on several occasions in the past.
Sergey Chapnin, editor-in-chief of “The Journal of the Moscow Patriarchate”, has the same opinion. He thinks the reason of the murder was the religious activities of Father Daniil. He says: “There are no other reasons behind this.”
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