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We shot and made peace
Skirmish in Moscow involving Chechen police officers may remain without criminal case
A criminal case into the wounding of three people in a fight and shooting that occurred near the Teply Stan metro station at the end of August with the participation of Chechen police officers sent to Moscow may never be opened. According to a Vremya Novostey source, the citizens injured in the clash decided to make peace by voluntarily writing a waiver of their claims. As a result, the pre-investigation check carried out by the investigative authorities will likely be terminated without consequences for the participants in the incident.Meanwhile, Vremya Novostey's sources in the special services familiar with the situation noted that the investigation into this emergency is very similar to the story of the murder in November 2006 in the center of the capital of the commander of the Chechen special forces detachment "Highlander" Movladi Baysarov. He was actually openly shot dead in broad daylight by Chechen policemen who arrived in Moscow, allegedly while showing resistance, and the criminal case on this fact eventually “died” safely.
There are still two versions of what happened on the evening of August 25 on Novoyasenevsky Prospekt. The reason for the conflict was a regular quarrel that occurred at about nine o’clock in the evening between visitors to the “Oriental Kitchen” cafe, where visitors from Azerbaijan often relax. The official authorities adhere to the version according to which one of the cafe visitors, an Azerbaijani, had an argument with a Chechen policeman and, in a fight, wounded him in the leg with a knife. Next, the disputants' friends began to sort things out. As a result, another Chechen policeman and two of his Muscovite opponents received gunshot and knife wounds.
The second, unofficial version was told by some eyewitnesses of the incident. According to them, after a fight with an Azerbaijani, the wounded Chechen policeman called his friends and said that the villain who had attacked him had left in a white Mercedes. Five trainees from the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs went to help him. According to unofficial data, they were sent to Moscow for six months to protect the mother of the head of the republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, who is in the capital for treatment.
According to this version, Chechen police officers noticed a white Mercedes standing at a traffic light, in which a Caucasian man was driving, near the Teply Stan metro station, not far from the cafe. The fact that his driver had nothing to do with the fight in the “Oriental Kitchen”, but simply happened to pass there with a friend on his own business, became clear later. And at first, according to witnesses, the business travelers who had their service weapons with them - Stechkin pistols - did not investigate. They simply pulled the man (he also turned out to be Azerbaijani) from the salon, and a new fight began. During the attack, the driver was also wounded with a knife, and his friend received a gunshot wound. Also, as a result of the scuffle, an involuntary shot occurred, which wounded another Chechen businessman in the stomach.
Since all this was happening in front of passers-by, the capital’s police soon arrived at the scene, and the participants in the skirmish were separated “in the corners.” Some were sent to hospitals, others to the police department, where the seconded, supposedly not without support from above, tried to present themselves as the injured party. In the end, everyone was released. But no criminal case was ever initiated. The SKP department for the South-Western Administrative District (SWAD) began only a pre-investigation check.
Yesterday, from sources close to the investigation, it became known that this check has either already been completed, or will be completed in the coming days. Formally, the reason for this was a statement from Mercedes passengers, who wrote that they had no complaints against the Chechen police officers. How this might affect the issue of refusal to initiate criminal proceedings remains a mystery. According to the law, infliction of grievous bodily harm (and knife and gunshot wounds are classified as such) automatically entails the initiation of a criminal case.
The SKP department for the South-Western Administrative District could not clarify the situation yesterday. One of the heads of the department said that a matter of such importance was under the control of the chief, who was not on site. He himself is not aware of the details.
Meanwhile, a source in law enforcement agencies expressed the opinion that they are trying to “slow down” this case. “The Moscow police can do practically nothing with such business travelers; their hands are tied. Just remember the operation to detain Baysarov,” he noted.
40-year-old Movladi Baysarov, commander of the Gorets operational combat group, subordinate to the North Caucasus regional department of the FSB, was shot dead on November 18 on Leninsky Prospekt during a special operation carried out by Chechen security forces. Earlier, Baysarov openly criticized Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov, after which his squad was disbanded, and a criminal case was immediately opened against him. Despite this, Baysarov lived quietly in Moscow and gave interviews.
According to the official version, during the arrest, Baysarov allegedly resisted, took out a bomb and threatened to blow everyone up, and an employee of the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs “worked proactively, firing a burst from a machine gun.” According to the unofficial version, Baysarov was shot in cold blood. According to eyewitnesses, there was no detention as such - when Baysarov got out of the car, they allegedly immediately opened fire on him. The names of the participants in the “operation” were established later. It turned out that a number of leaders of the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs were present at the scene of the emergency. And on the body of the deceased, experts found 11 wounds, and, according to them, the shots were fired from different weapons, and some at point-blank range. A criminal case was then opened, but then it was suspended due to the impossibility of identifying the accused.