The trial for the murder of Stanislav Korepanov has begun

On August 9, 2007, hearings began in the Supreme Court of the Udmurt Republic on the murder of 17-year-old skater Stanislav Korepanov, who died on March 31, 2007 from injuries sustained in a fight with neo-Nazis .

Defendants Andrei Fazliev and Kirill Vakhrushev are accused of committing a murder by a group of persons by prior conspiracy out of hooligan motives (pp. "g", "and" part 2 of article 105).

The injured party (the mother of the deceased Nadezhda Gennadievna Korepanova and her lawyer Farida Kiseleva, a lawyer for the Agora interregional human rights organization) disagree with the public prosecutor and want to reclassify the charges from "hooligan" to "extremist" because, in their opinion, the crime was committed on the basis of social intolerance and hatred.

On September 18, 2007, the trial continued in the Supreme Court of Udmurtia.

Judge Vladimir Sokolov interrogated four witnesses, one of whom changed his testimony, and the other Andrei Dergunov said that Andrey Fazliev, accused of killing Korepanov, "sang songs of a nationalist nature" , stated "Izhevsk is for Izhevsk residents, Russia is for Russians" and believed that " all migrants and representatives of other nationalities must be expelled . "

Farida Kiseleva asked Andrey Fazliev's mother what kind of literature he read and whether he had any nationalist leaflets in his apartment. However, the defender of the second defendant, Igor Chibyshev, stated that " "the case is being considered in court about the murder, and not about neo-Nazis and skinheads .

The judge reminded those present that the side of the victims, even before the start of the process, petitioned for " "mandatory inclusion of an extremist motive in the scope of the charge .

"We are trying to collect all the details of this crime in order to enable the court to assess the full picture of what happened and, as a result, give the right qualification. By providing the opportunity to freely ask questions to witnesses, the court demonstrates that it wants to objectively understand what happened and is not constrained by the position of the state prosecution at the investigation stage " , Farida Kiseleva noted after the meeting.

On October 25, the judicial debate on the case ended. The public prosecutor asked the court to find the defendants Andrei Fazliev and Kirill Vakhrushev (according to the investigation, members of extremist youth groups) guilty and sentence them to 16 years in prison to be served in a strict regime colony. The court refused to consider the motive of hatred in the actions of the accused.

Sources

• Hearing the case of the murder of Stas Korepanov // IA "Day" (Udmurtia). 2007. August 9.
• Mother accused of killing extremist says she neglected her son // IA REGNUM. 2007. September 18.
• Udmurt Nazis renounced "skinheads" in court // IA Regnum. 2007. October 25.
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