Police trash apartment of former TV presenter

Writ­ing in a social media post, Ms. Pytlie­va, who fled Belarus last year to escape polit­i­cal­ly moti­vat­ed per­se­cu­tion, said that the offi­cers had left an utter mess in the apart­ment.

In par­tic­u­lar, they broke down not only the door to the apart­ment but also the bed­room door, which had not been locked, dam­aged loud­speak­ers, smashed hedge­hog fig­urines, tore up her wed­ding pho­tos, trashed her vinyl record col­lec­tion, and poured cere­als and flour out of jars onto the floor.

The police also ripped pic­tures of the journalist’s friends off the refrig­er­a­tor, tore them up and put the pieces into a water fil­ter, as well as cut a por­trait of Ms. Pytlieva’s hus­band with a knife.

Ms. Pytlie­va post­ed mul­ti­ple pho­tos show­ing the mess left by the raid.

The rea­son for the raid was not imme­di­ate­ly known. Ms. Pytlie­va, who is stay­ing in a Euro­pean coun­try togeth­er with her hus­band and their chil­dren, cur­rent­ly hosts a YouTube show focus­ing on Belarus’ news.