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Dubrovka - 2007
The Nord-Ost organization requires a new criminal case by the Nord-Ost public organization filed an application with the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation with a request to institute criminal proceedings on the fact of the death of hostages during the operation to release them in October 2002 during the Dubrovka terrorist attack, as well as bring to criminal liability the leadership of the headquarters that coordinated the surgery to salvation. "We demand a criminal case on the fact of the death of hostages and prosecution of persons who led the rescue operation," said Tatyana Karpova, head of Nord-Ost, at a press conference in Moscow. According to her, these persons must be held accountable for two articles of the Criminal Code - part 2 of Art. 237 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (concealment of information) and Part 3 of Art. 293 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (negligence and failure of their official duties, resulting in the death of two or more persons). According to Karpova, "the Prosecutor General’s Office opened a criminal case only upon the seizure of hostages, while such a case was not instituted on the fact of the death of people."
"We sent a letter to the Prosecutor General’s Office by mail and officially registered the departure. The same materials that we sent to the Prosecutor General were transferred to the head of state," she said. Karpova claims that the criminal case on the fact of the capture of hostages on Dubrovka was suspended on May 19, 2007. Due to this,
She noted, the victims and their lawyers do not have the opportunity to submit petitions and statements to the investigation, as well as get acquainted with the case materials.
As Tatyana Karpova told Interfax , in its statement Nord-Ost notes that the organization of medical care to the victims during the hostage rescue operation was not at the proper level. According to her, Nord-Ost has complaints about the leadership of the hostage headquarters in the fact that there is no antidota for gas that was used to neutralize terrorists and from which the hostages suffered.
Recall that on October 23, 2002, terrorists during the musical Nord-Ost committed the capture of the theater center on Dubrovka in Moscow. 912 people were hostage, five of them were shot by terrorists, another 125 were killed as a result of the actions of the militants. 40 terrorists who were in the theater center were destroyed (of which 21 are a man and 19 - women).