Another assault on the apartment of an NBP member

On December 2, 2005, 10 employees of the Organized Crime Control Department and people in civilian clothes tried to enter the apartment of the press secretary of the National Bolshevik Party, Alexander Averin.

When asked to present a search warrant, the police stated that they did not have a warrant. The owner of the apartment refused to open the door, in response, the Organized Crime Control Department officers promised to contact the Ministry of Emergency Situations for help and open the door with special means.

Journalists from the newspaper Kommersant and the France-Presse agency, as well as State Duma deputy Viktor Alksnis, arrived at the scene of the events. The NBP-Info website reports that security officers refuse to let V. Alksnis into the apartment, to identify themselves and the purpose of their visit to A. Averin. They also refuse to leave the stairwell.

As A. Averin stated, in the same way the police invaded the apartment of an NBP lawyer the day before. However, Averin does not have any party documents at home.

The Department of Internal Affairs of the North-Eastern Administrative District reported that “three employees of the Organized Crime Control Department, together with a local police officer, went around apartments on the eve of the elections. They checked previously convicted citizens, as well as members of radical parties. In one of the apartments the door was not opened for them, but the police are not going to break it and are just standing nearby " .

The head of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the North-Eastern District of Moscow, Viktor Trutnev, who arrived at the scene, said that there were armed foreigners in A. Averin’s apartment who were making an explosive device.

According to V. Trutnev, employees of the Organized Crime Control Department arrived to check the message about this and initially did not intend to detain anyone. However, he also said that the police detained a Ukrainian citizen at the entrance, who allegedly confirmed that there were from 7 to 10 of his compatriots in the apartment who “arrived for the Moscow elections.”

As A. Averin stated, there are five people in the apartment, and all of them are Russians: Alexander Averin himself, Vladimir Abel, Roman Popkov, Dmitry Sumin, Maxim Gasovich. Averin also denied reports that there was an explosive device in the apartment.

NBP leader Eduard Limonov told the Ekho Moskvy radio station that operatives are trying to enter the apartment to check information about the explosives stored there. According to him, deputy Alksnis saw an explosives technician throw a foreign object at the door of Averin’s apartment. As Limonov reported, Alksnis suggested that there were traces of explosives on this item, and that the intelligence officers were trying to commit a forgery.

Meanwhile, a correspondent for the website Grani.Ru reported that two people in civilian clothes demanded that the photojournalists at the scene stop filming and erase the footage they had already taken. The NBP press release also states that journalists from Channel 3 and NTV received orders from the Russian Presidential Administration not to cover events around the NBP on Friday and the day before.

According to Polit.Ru, an agreement was reached between the police and the National Bolsheviks that deputy Alksnis and a Polit.ru correspondent were to enter the apartment along with police officers. However, after the “security officials”, among whom there were representatives of the FSB, refused to let the press representatives in, V. Abel said that in this case the door would not be opened and he refused to negotiate.

After this, the police declared an assault as the only option for the development of events.

Polit.Ru reported that a deputy arrived at the scene. Prosecutor General of the North-Eastern District Yuri Voroshilin.

At 19:15 Moscow time, the siege of Averin’s apartment continued.

According to the National Bolsheviks, over 100 police officers and intelligence officers are involved in the operation. The house was cordoned off, and about 30 NBP activists who arrived at the scene were detained. Residents are allowed inside only upon presentation of their passport.

“According to our information ,” the NBP-Info website reports, “ a night assault is being prepared when the journalists leave.”

It is worth noting that on December 2, 2005, the Movement Against Illegal Immigration (DPNI), known for its nationalist position , came out in defense of the NBP, among others.

On December 3, 2005 at 19:45 the siege from A. Averin’s apartment and patrols near the entrance were lifted. During the hours spent in the blocked apartment, A. Averin filed a statement with the Moscow prosecutor's office, in which he complained about the violation of his voting rights and asked to initiate a criminal case under Art. 141 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“obstruction of the exercise of electoral rights”).

Based on materials from right-wing radical sites

Sources

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• Organized Organized Crime Control storms the apartment of the National Bolshevik // Grani.Ru. 2005. December 2.
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• Moscow: lessons from the siege of December 2-3 // NBP-Info. 2005. December 5.