INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russian authorities have detained a man in northwestern Russia suspected of assaulting an Al Jazeera reporter live on air last week, the St
Wagner last Thursday when the man accosted her, demanding that she speak Russian during her live report.Dridi was hospitalized with a
concussion after the man struck her in the head and fled the area, Fontankasaid.An unnamed 36-year-old employee of a fruit and vegetable
wholesaler was detained in the city of Petrozavodsk, some 300 kilometers northeast of St
Petersburg in connection with the assault, the outlet added Monday.Investigators opened a criminal investigation and placed the man in a
company at the time of the attack.Fontanka noted that Dridi, a Palestinian national, has so far abstained from commenting on the assault
makeshift memorial outside of the private military company's former headquarters in St
Petersburg after he was reported killed in a plane crash last week.
