Gabby Petito, 22, and her 23-year-old boyfriend, Brian Landry, traveled to the United States together in July. In early September, the young man returned home alone and refuses to tell the police about what happened. Gabby’s family wants answers and believes Brian is responsible for their daughter’s disappearance.
Gabby Petito was last seen on 24 August leaving her hotel in Salt Lake City. Traveling the roads of North America in a van, the couple shared their impressions on social media until there were no updates. The girl regularly spoke to her mother on the phone until she contacted her via text messages.
“I don’t know if it was technically her or not, because it was just text. I didn’t speak to her verbally, ”Nicole Schmidt, Gabby’s mother, told CBS News.
According to family members, Gabby last contacted her parents in late August when the couple was in the Grand Teton National Park area in Wyoming.
Unexpectedly, Brian Landry returned home on September 1, ten days before the girl’s family reported missing, hired a lawyer and refused to speak to investigators with his family. The van the couple was traveling in returned with their boyfriend and had already been detained by the authorities for analysis.
According to CNN, the Petito family contacted Brian and his family separately for information that could help authorities find the girl.
“We believe that you [pais de Brian] Know where Brian left Gabby. We ask you to inform us. As parents, how can you let us get through this pain and not help us? “They began with questions.” Please, if you still have any decency, let us know where Gabby is. Let us know if we are really looking for a suitable place, ”the parents of the 22-year-old asked in an open letter addressed to the parents of the laundry.
The investigation is in the hands of North Port Police in conjunction with the FBI, which revealed Wednesday that Brian has been formally identified as a “person of interest” in the case.
“We share the frustration with the world,” North Port Police Chief Todd Garrison said Thursday. “Two people arrived, only one returned, and the one who returned does not give us any information about what happened,” he concluded.
Neither Brian nor his family members will make “further comments” according to a statement released by the family’s attorney. Stephen Bertolino also stated that the young man is only “exercising his constitutional rights” and therefore will not speak.
the couple had a falling out during the trip
On August 12, Utah police responded to a report of domestic violence involving Petito and Laundry.
At the time, authorities said the couple was with a witness who witnessed physical confrontations following an altercation. Crying, the 22-year-old admitted that she had mental health problems and therefore tried to attack her boyfriend.
However, “both said they were in love and were about to get married, and that they did not want either of them to be charged with a crime,” police officer Daniel Robbins wrote in the report. At the suggestion of the police at the scene, the couple broke up overnight, but Gabrielle was “confused and agitated.”
“After assessing the circumstances, I don’t think the situation has escalated into a level of domestic violence or a mental health crisis,” said Daniel Robbins. Therefore, the police decided that no charges would be brought.
The search for Gabby Petitio is centered in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming, the last location a young woman is believed to have visited.
A page has also been created on the GoFundMe platform to help families find, pay investigators, and pay travel expenses. So far, the family has managed to raise more than 20 thousand euros.
The case attracts a lot of media attention in the United States of America because of its contours.
Putin has repeatedly consulted with Russian Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu about the invasion, Europa Press told Ukraine’s chief intelligence director Vadim Skibitsky.
According to Skibitsky, it was the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), which is responsible for counterintelligence and espionage work, that put pressure on Gerasimov and other military agencies to agree to launch an offensive. .
However, according to the Ukrainian intelligence services, the FSB considered that by the end of February sufficient preparations had already been made to guarantee the success of the Russian Armed Forces in a lightning invasion.
However, according to Kyiv, the Russian General Staff provided the Russian troops with supplies and ammunition for only three days, hoping that the offensive would be swift and immediately successful.
The head of Ukrainian intelligence also emphasized the cooperation of local residents, who always provided the Ukrainian authorities with up-to-date information about the Russian army, such as the number of soldiers or the exact location of troops.
The military offensive launched on February 24 by Russia in Ukraine caused at least 6.5 million internally displaced persons and more than 7.8 million refugees to European countries, which is why the UN classifies this migration crisis as the worst in Europe since World War II (1939-1945). gg.). ).
At the moment, 17.7 million Ukrainians are in need of humanitarian assistance, and 9.3 million are in need of food aid and housing.
The UN has presented as confirmed 6,755 civilian deaths and 10,607 wounded since the beginning of the war, stressing that these figures are much lower than the real ones.
A Stockholm court on Monday sentenced a former Swedish intelligence officer to life in prison for spying for Russia, and his brother to at least 12 years in prison. In what is considered one of the most serious cases in Swedish counterintelligence history, much of the trial took place behind closed doors in the name of national security.
According to the prosecution, it was Russian military intelligence, the GRU, who took advantage of the information provided by the two brothers between 2011 and their arrest at the end of 2021.
Peyman Kia, 42, has held many senior positions in the Swedish security apparatus, including the army and his country’s intelligence services (Säpo). His younger brother, Payam, 35, is accused of “participating in the planning” of the plot and of “managing contacts with Russia and the GRU, including passing on information and receiving financial rewards.”
Both men deny the charges, and their lawyers have demanded an acquittal on charges of “aggravated espionage,” according to the Swedish news agency TT.
The trial coincides with another case of alleged Russian espionage, with the arrest of the Russian-born couple in late November in a suburb of Stockholm by a police team arriving at dawn in a Blackhawk helicopter.
Research website Bellingcat identified them as Sergei Skvortsov and Elena Kulkova. The couple allegedly acted as sleeper agents for Moscow, having moved to Sweden in the late 1990s.
According to Swedish press reports, the couple ran companies specializing in the import and export of electronic components and industrial technology.
The man was again detained at the end of November for “illegal intelligence activities.” His partner, suspected of being an accomplice, has been released but remains under investigation.
According to Swedish authorities, the arrests are not related to the trial of the Kia brothers.
“They can strengthen their positions. We understand that this can happen. At the same time, we do not rule out that they will announce a general mobilization,” Danilov said in an interview with the Ukrainska Pravda online publication.
Danilov believed that this mobilization would also be convened “to exterminate as many as possible” of Russian citizens, so that “they would no longer have any problems on their territory.”
In this sense, Danilov also reminded that Russia has not given up on securing control over Kyiv or the idea of the complete “destruction” of Ukraine. “We have to be ready for anything,” he said.
“I want everyone to understand that [os russos] they have not given up on the idea of destroying our nation. If they don’t have Kyiv in their hands, they won’t have anything in their hands, we must understand this,” continued Danilov, who also did not rule out that a new Russian offensive would come from “Belarus and other territories.” .
As such, Danilov praised the decision of many of its residents who chose to stay in the Ukrainian capital when the war broke out in order to defend the city.
“They expected that there would be panic, that people would run, that there would be nothing to protect Kyiv,” he added, referring to President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The military offensive launched on February 24 by Russia in Ukraine caused at least 6.5 million internally displaced persons and more than 7.8 million refugees to European countries, which is why the UN classifies this migration crisis as the worst in Europe since World War II (1939-1945). gg.). ).
At the moment, 17.7 million Ukrainians are in need of humanitarian assistance, and 9.3 million are in need of food aid and housing.
The Russian invasion, justified by Russian President Vladimir Putin on the need to “denazify” and demilitarize Ukraine for Russia’s security, was condemned by the international community at large, which responded by sending weapons to Ukraine and imposing political and economic sanctions on Russia.
The UN has presented as confirmed 6,755 civilian deaths and 10,607 wounded since the beginning of the war, stressing that these figures are much lower than the real ones.
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