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In St. Petersburg, 13 criminal cases of attacks on citizens for nationalist reasons have been consolidated
On June 5, 2006, the St. Petersburg prosecutor's office combined 13 criminal cases on attacks committed by gang members against citizens and organizations for national extremist motives in one proceeding.
Eight people were charged under Article 209 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“banditry”), in total 11 people are in custody in this case.
Recall that the criminal case against this gang was initiated on May 19, 2006.
In particular, one proceeding combined criminal cases of an attack on persons of Armenian nationality committed in 2003 in the Tosnensky district of the Leningrad region;
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about the attempted murder of Nigerian citizen Omordion in 2003 in the Kirovsky district of St. Petersburg;
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about the murder of a citizen of the DPRK Kim Hyun Ik in 2003 in the Central District of St. Petersburg.
There are also criminal cases on the disappearance in 2004 of R. Hoffman and A. Golovchenko;
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about the murder of Nikolai Girenko in June 2004 in the Petrogradsky district of St. Petersburg;
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about the murder of Senegalese citizen Samba Lampsar in April 2006 in the Admiralteisky district of St. Petersburg;
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about the attack on post offices in St. Petersburg in 2005;
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a criminal case against unidentified persons who took part in the attack on the Sultonov family, separated into a separate proceeding from the criminal case previously sent to the St. Petersburg City Court.
The investigative-operational group continues to collect evidence about the involvement of gang members in the commission of identified crimes, and work is also underway to verify their involvement in other attacks.
Earlier it was reported about the detention by law enforcement officers of St. Petersburg and Moscow of five young people in the course of operational-search activities on May 18-21, 2006, suspected of involvement in the murder of a student from Senegal.
Sources
- In St. Petersburg, 13 criminal cases on attacks on citizens for national extremist motives were combined in one proceeding // Official website of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation. 2006. May 5.