MINSK. Aug 1 (Interfax) - A preliminary investigation of the terror act in the Minsk metro in April 2011, and the explosions in Minsk in 2008 and in Vitebsk in 2005 is over, Belarusian Deputy Prosecutor General Andrei Shved told reporters in Minsk on Monday.
"The prosecutor will hand over the criminal case to the court," he said.
In his words, it was a conspiracy aimed at destabilization.
"Investigators have no information that the terror acts had organizers. The motive is known; it is related to the personality of the suspects," he said.
Two handmade bombs exploded in Vitebsk on September 14 and 22, 2005. A beer can stuffed with pieces of metal exploded at a bus stop first. No one was hurt. The same type of bomb exploded at a disco in the center of Vitebsk, and about 50 people were wounded. No one died.
The Belarusian prosecutors opened a criminal case of attempted murder through hooliganism methods.
A bomb in a fruit juice pack exploded during celebrations of the Belarusian Independence Day in Minsk on July 3, 2008. The bomb was stuffed with bolts and nuts. Fifty-five people were hurt, and 47 of them were hospitalized. Another bomb was found before it went off. The case was also defined as hooliganism. Practically ever male in Belarus was fingerprinted after that. The theory of Belarusian opposition involvement was considered actively. The culprits were not found.
A handmade bomb exploded in the Oktyabrskaya metro station in Minsk on April 11, 2011. Fifteen people died, and over 200, among them three Russian citizens, were hurt. A terror case was opened.