United Kingdom / 2024-03-20-gb-1
/ date of the event
After 11.30pm a warehouse on the Cromwell Industrial Estate in east London was set alight with petrol. The fire badly damaged two units occupied by Oddisey Ltd and Meest UK Ltd, which shipped parcels and aid to Ukraine. Eight fire engines and sixty firefighters attended. The court put the occupants' loss at nearly £200,000 and the overall damage, including reinstatement, at about £1.3m.
officially attributed
A court or a competent state body has attributed it. That is not the same as a proven attack: an indictment is an allegation, not a verdict.
Named party: Wagner Group
A - established by a court
Central Criminal Court (Old Bailey) / 2025-10-24 / carrying out the act
In its sentencing remarks the court found: "The attack on the warehouse was commissioned by the terrorist organisation the Wagner Group", proscribed in the United Kingdom on 15 September 2023. The court described the Wagner Group as funded by and closely connected to the Russian state, and from June 2023 under the direct control of the Russian leadership.
finality not established
The court found that no one was hurt.
Sentence and remarks at the Central Criminal Court. A sentencing does not create a new incident on the timeline; whether the judgment is final is not established.
Central Criminal Court / judiciary.uk / 2025-10-24 / primary source
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