The soldier is stolen by the military prosecutor's office

He turned out to be the only witness to the murder of his comrade

- Pit, I have no right to even know where he is! What did Oleg guessed? The fact that he miraculously survived when a drunken officer attacked them with Dima? - Lyudmila Stepanovna Shemarda cries. We are talking on the phone. At the other end of the wire is Syktyvkar, the Panteleev’s apartment - the same Dima Panteleev, who died in early August in the Lukhovitsy near Moscow, in the railway troops, in military unit 32386, and Oleg Shemarda is the main witness of the murder.

D Ima and Oleg met at the prefabricated point, in their native Syktyvkar, then accidentally ended up in one part and made friends there very much. They held on side by side, insured, helped. Two years their armies ended this November, about to.

All this summer, the company captain Nikiforov sent Dima and Oleg to forced work to the local forestry. In the morning - there, in the evening - back to the unit. Who received money for their work is unknown (the investigation has not been established), although it is possible to assume, we are not small children.

This was saved his life. The brutal captain did not run after the soldier Shemerda, he shouted into the open door to bring a bucket of water and doused Oleg. The order was executed, and when the soldier woke up, he found his friend Dima unconscious. Dima Panteleev fell into a coma and, without regaining consciousness, died at dawn on August 8 at the Lukhovitz district hospital. He recorded cerebral edema due to multiple bruises, open cranial injury, fractures of the lower jaw ...

(Tatyana Dmitrievna Panteleeva - mother of Dima. - A.P.) Instead of sympathy from the officers, we met complete indifference to our grief - and this is from those who are to blame for the death of Dima. We were given only at home to see it, in front of the funeral - on August 11, they do not allow to familiarize him with the conclusion of forensic medical examinations, the investigator who conducts the case (V. Repin, the investigator of the Kolomenskaya garrison prosecutor’s office. - A.P.) hints that Dima was sick, and therefore it happened ... how is it a patient? He was taken to the army - he was healthy, killed - so I suffered from diseases? .. We collected all the certificates, the outpatient card was taken in the clinic - there is nothing there, no diseases ... What are they drowning? Will they really justify the killer?

- Why do they do this? Do you understand?

- They explained that the brothers of Captain Nikiforov hunt him, they are also officers. But there is some kind of nonsense: if the officers hunt, why will they not detain them? Instead of this, my son is not known where the hostage is kept in the position ... The prosecutor’s office told me: “You should not know where he is, for his own safety.” But I demanded at least a meeting with my son, I wanted to know that he was alive, and after long requests, they allowed me such a meeting, but only in the presence of the prosecutor. We had no right to speak alone.

“Is he accused of something?” He is not under arrest?

- Of course not. He seems to be a victim. And morally - a friend was killed. And physically. And yet - the main witness.

- I'm just horrified. The withered all, pale, nervous, drooping. He told me: he was badly taken to Moscow, where-he doesn’t know, there the doctor diagnosed: the hematoma of the parietal lobe of the brain. But he doesn’t receive any drugs, and I don’t even know where I can call to find out if he is in what condition!

All this is a strange position from which frost on the skin: what are they doing with the main witness for impregnable iron gates with painted red stars? What own testimonies will this main witness signed? What will record the investigation?

Indeed, why not imagine everything so that Nikiforov struck this not much, a little bit, but did Dima Panteleev finish everything else? Attempts to commit such a metamorphosis in the history of the torment of the soldier Andrei Sychev have been undertaken many times - and all in order to ensure that the Minister of Defense has every right to dump crimes in the army exclusively on the “bad people” - a poor health, mind and education, a soldier's contingent, which comes exclusively in order to drink and fight.

Anna Politkovskaya, observer of "New"

The editors thanks the Foundation "Mother's Right" for the help provided in the preparation of the material.
09/11/2006