The opposition took control of the state radio and television.
"The security arrangements are at the heart of the problem," he told state radio.
A military spokesman said on the state radio that many people were killed.
Italian state radio reported that 166 people were killed and 1,659 injured.
The woman from Syrian state radio was not best pleased.
By the end of the day, the city was ghostly quiet and the state radio reported 25 dead.
Prokofiev wrote the piece and got the money he needed to live on from the state radio.
The state radio said they discussed security measures to be taken after the assassination.
The end of his career with state radio, he later said, "doomed me to be a writer."
He also served on the board of Hessian state radio throughout the 1980s and 1990s.