In uniform

Trench justice

December 11, 2012 Sergey Aksenov

Last winter, at the peak of a whiteless protest, when many rejoiced in the “concessions” of the authorities in the form of the declared political reform, I warned of its imaginary, false character. It was clear that any ruler who really decided to carry out political reforms would primarily release the political prisoners and disband the political police. To prove the seriousness of their intentions. Putin, as we recall, the presence in Russia of prisoners convicted by political reasons denied, and the liberation of Sergei Mokhnatkin with the highest monarch of President Medvedev was more likely to create the appearance of humanism, nothing more.

Things were even worse with the political police. The Center for Combating Extremism, this is a modern security department and the fifth control of the KGB in one person, not only no one was going to close, but, on the contrary, its employees were in every possible way deduced public criticism from the fire, covered it, and the structure allocated additional financing. All this undeniably testified to the approaching power revenge Putin immediately after his re -election. And this moment has come.

The “swamp business”, the deprivation of the gudkov of the deputy mandate, the money of Sobchak’s money, the Law on foreign agents, the law on slander for the media - all these are different facets of one phenomenon called “reaction”.

The National Bolshes in this sense was lucky. The faithful positions of in recent years to never agree to the conditions of the authorities, not to look for a compromise with it, we refused to go to Bolotnaya and therefore did not fall among the accused in the case of the events of May 6. I am sure that our people were there, they would be the first to judge and the terms would be given the largest, as it was in the Manezhka case. However, the authorities, it seems, decided to cut the entire opposition without exception. Having identified all the violent and disagreed in different strata of society, she tries to choose a key to everyone, find a weak place and hit him. And if there is no such place, then it must be invented.

It is this logic that I explain the lawsuit filed against me by an employee of the EE Center Alexei Transpond. I am sure that this is not his personal initiative, the Operational Operational Worker has other tasks. However, the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, exhausted by constant public criticism, has long dreamed of revenge, and here the interests of the department and the highest political power coincided. So there was a lawsuit to protect the "honor and dignity" of the trench.

The subject of the lawsuit was my public statements about the beating, and in fact the murders of the National National Bolsheviks Yuri Chervochkin in 2007 and the story with the detention from the filing of my six -year -old son Vani on the Triumphal Square. And also a comment about the claim itself: "The trench has no honor, no dignity, and he has nothing to protect." According to the trenches, these statements “cause” him “shame, awkwardness, heart and headaches, insomnia”.

According to the law, the defendant, that is, I had to confirm the truth of my statements in court. And I was glad of this. The threat of receiving a 250,000th penalty, and it was precisely that amount that the trench was required of me as compensation for damage, measured in comparison with the possibility of raising, finally, the topic of the murder of our comrade, to remind the society of those tragic events.

I introduced three witnesses to the court, each of which confirmed the fact of threats to Yura from the Okopny. They said that the operative promised Yura in the event of a political activity to “break the legs”, “break his head”, “beat to such an extent that even if he survives, he would forever remain disabled.” Whoever does not know, I remind you that it was Jure who broke his head in baseball bats, after which he died. A few minutes before the beating, he managed to call the Kasparov.ru editorial office and report that four were followed by four, two of which were trenched colleagues who interrogated him on this day.

I note that in court it was not the involvement of the trenches in the murder, but my right to express publicly “suspicions” addressed to him. No more and no less. Well, something, but suspicions with such facts are quite reasonable. What I told the court, but the court did not agree with me. The episode with the detention on the triumphal Vani and his nanny - Victoria Kuznetsova - was left without consideration at all. The court considered it impossible to interrogate Victoria in connection with her minority - now she is seventeen.

The opinion of media representatives who participated in the process as a “third party” that a public discussion in resonant cases is normal and that it should defend freedom of speech, did not impress the court. Interestingly, in the debate, the representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs turned not so much to the defendants as to representatives of the media. It seemed that it was he who considered them guilty of this story, because the media distributed this, replicated suspicions of the trenches.

As a result, the plaintiff's requirements were partially satisfied. The court decided to recover fines of 40 and 50 thousand rubles (from me and my wife Pavel Shehman). At the same time, the request of the trench about the public refutation of “false” information was rejected. As they say, both ours and yours.

Of course, the court decision will be appealed, including in Strasbourg. Both I and the lawyer of the "Agora" Damir Gainutdinov will continue the struggle. However, it becomes clear that the system has switched to a new level - complex repressions. Now, more “subtle” methods are added to the brutal forms of suppressing political activity - physical pressure and criminal prosecution - blocking freedom of utterance through court decisions.

An interesting bar - a similar claim to the trench filed by me several months ago, was considered by the judge of the Tver court by Komissarov within only three (!) Minutes. Needless to say, all my petitions, including the call of witnesses, were rejected as not related to business. Refuse the lawsuit, the commissars decided.

It seems that Pavel Shekhman was right, at the first meeting, who declared a discharge to the court, referring to the Latin principle of Nemo Judex in Causa Suum (“No one can be a judge in his case”). It turns out that the system judges itself. One part of it - the court - makes a decision regarding the actions of its other part - a police officer. The result in this case is a foregone conclusion.

Photo from the author’s personal archive

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