Libyan student killed in St. Petersburg

On May 31, 2004, the son of the press attache of the Libyan embassy in Russia, a 2nd year student of the 1st Medical University named after M.I. Pavlova is a citizen of Libya, Elhamali Muhamad.

It happened at house number 20 on M. Torez Avenue, where he rented an apartment. At about one in the morning, the Libyan and his brother were attacked by unknown people, two young men about 25 years old, who shouted insults at foreigners. The skirmish ended with one of the attackers striking the face of the younger of the brothers, causing him to fall, and the second pulled out a knife and hit the older one four times. The raiders fled. The younger of the brothers soon woke up and called an ambulance and the police. With stab wounds, Elhimali was taken to the intensive care unit of the Elizabethan Hospital.

The attackers took nothing from the Libyans. On this basis, Pavel Raevsky, head of the Public Relations Information Department of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, does not rule out a murder motivated by ethnic hatred: “ When skinheads are involved in this, for us, representatives of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, just for the citizens of the city, this is doubly unpleasant. considered first, so to speak, but all versions are considered" .

On the fact of what happened, the prosecutor's office of the Vyborgsky district of St. Petersburg initiated a criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Murder"). The crime was investigated by the Department of Particularly Important Cases of the city prosecutor's office. The information department of regional and public relations of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the North-Western Federal District, however, stated that the version of the murder motivated by ethnic hatred is not confirmed.

The Libyan embassy sent a request to the Russian authorities. The cultural attaché of the Libyan embassy, ​​Abduladim O. Elhimali, also said that his second son would leave St. Petersburg.

Sources

• The version of the murder of a Libyan student by skinheads is unlikely (St. Petersburg) // IA REGNUM. 2004. June 3
• The murder of a Libyan student in St. Petersburg could cause an international scandal // NTV. June 2, 2004