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Judicial games
In the opposition
Judicial games
October 11, 2012 Alexander Podrabinek
The result of the court in the case of Pussy Riot is not to say that it was completely unexpected, but still surprised many. We have long been accustomed to the clumsy work of special services and law enforcement agencies - to plant, so in full; beat, so to death; Lying, so to insanity. And suddenly: some subtlety, a strained calculation, an attempt to think. This explains the replacement for Ekaterina Samutsevich a real term as conditional.
I’ll say to the letter -ears and the lawyers: the legal aspects of this case are not discussed. It is necessary not to respect oneself and others in order to argue about what norms of the law were applied in this process and which - not; What evidence was in favor of the accused, and which were against it. This is all from the evil one. There was no justice and there is neither in the Khamovniki court or in the Moscow city. Let us leave lawyers a sad need to operate in the political process by the norms of the law - this is their work. If someone undertakes to claim that Samutsevich was released in the courtroom because it is less criminal than Alekhina and Tolokonnikov, then I will advise the author of these statements to keep a column in a humorous journal.
The innocence of all three in the criminal law sense is so obvious, so convincingly and repeatedly proven that we are simply meaningless about the degree of guilt. Even the lawyer Irina Khrunova, who paid the attention of the judges of the Moscow City Court that Samutsevich was significantly less than others participated in the action in the Cathedral of Christ of the Canner, ultimately asked the judicial collegium not about the softening of the sentence in accordance with the deed, but about its complete cancellation and termination of the case.
In a change in the sentence, Katya Samutsevich is visible to the calculation, and he is transparent - to sow discord in the Pussy Riot group, which may have a great future. This is a calculation for envy, on rivalry, on suspicions of conspiracy with the authorities, for mutual resentment and distrust. The tactics are not new and many times tested. Unfortunately, the new generation of the opposition with this tactic is little familiar.
This is partly why Ekaterina Samutsevich gave the authorities a reason to attempt to drive a wedge between her and her lawyers. Non -spinning views, issues of representation, game of ambitions - everyday and everyday affairs. It is important not to give them a public nature and solve these problems with each other, without attracting outsiders as arbitrators and, as a fire, fearing the participation of representatives of the authorities in them. While in prison, it can be difficult to adhere to these rules.
However, there is no doubt that, if there were no such clues as the insufficient individualization of the defense of Samutsevich, the authorities would have found another occasion, and not one to try to make a split into the world-famous punk group. Now, only on the members of the group and their immediate environment depends, it realizes the power of its schismatic intentions or not. Of course, many will appear around those who want to take someone’s side or solve their own problems at someone else's expense.
Already, reproaches in unethical behavior and conspiracy with the authorities are distributed to Samutsevich. Evgenia Albats is convinced that this is "very similar to a deal with the investigation, if not for a successful recruitment." Not a weak accusation in the complete absence of evidence. The chairman of the Moscow Helsinki group Lyudmila Alekseeva, in an interview with the RSN, said that she was glad that Samutsevich had come out, "although for this she had to, apparently, go to some deal with the court." What is the deal, what it is concluded - this is not a word. It is especially ridiculous to hear such reproaches from Alekseeva, which in life has not spent a single day behind bars, and in terms of the ability to negotiate with the authorities and sit in various presidential structures, it beats all records.
We will probably still have to state that with the help of people frivolous and lungs, power has achieved some success in its endeavor. In the meantime, she demonstrated a clear position: with lawyers who publicly support the political position of their clients, there are no chances for a soft sentence. Choice for the defendants. If you want to play justice - invite the loyal authorities of lawyers; If you want justice, wash the deadline. The choice is similar to the political prisoners at every step. Actually, from these steps, their whole life consists - from arrest to liberation.
In the current situation, all the dangers that are in wait for Alekhin and Tolokonnikov are added to one more and very considerable: in order to emphasize the significance of the choice and make the choice to make a more embossed and fateful one, the authorities can go to a lot to deteriorate Tolokonnikova and Alekhina. So that everyone knows what happens to those who do not know how to negotiate and whom the government does not love. And it doesn’t matter that Samutsevich did not agree with the authorities. It is important that the authorities put her on the role that she took her in its judicial scenario. It's like a message to the future defendant: the choice is yours.