The case of beating teenagers was sent from the Investigative Committee to the police

On August 27, 2009, data became known on the results of an examination conducted by the Forensic Science Center of the North-Western District in the case of an attack on two teenagers in St. Petersburg in February 2009.

According to the conclusion of the center’s expert Elena Krayukhina, the cry “Russia for the Russians” is not aimed at inciting national hatred, and “the direction of the public calls “Kill the Khach, mochi the Khach”, “Beat the blacks, beat the Khachas” shouted by the attackers “is not possible to clearly determine " . The investigation did not provide the expert with additional materials about the context of the statement of the phrases studied.

The case, “about the beating of a teenager motivated by national hatred, turned into an ordinary case of youth brawls,” was sent from the Investigative Committee to the police for further investigation.

“The prosecutor’s investigators actually withdrew from the investigation of this fact. After the case was transferred to the police, and this, of course, was helped by the conclusion of the Center for Forensic Expertise, I’m afraid it will be incorrectly classified, and people can evade criminal liability,” said the lawyer, the family’s representative Kerimov Dmitry Dinze. He also noted that the SKP investigators “sent the case to the local investigative department, from where it was later transferred to the Main Directorate of the Internal Affairs Directorate.”

Investigators decided “that there are no signs of a crime in the case under Articles 30.3, 105.1 and 282.2.” Those. did not see attempted murder and incitement to hatred with the use of violence (the articles in the source are clearly mixed up - apparently, we are talking about part 3 of article 30, part 1 of article 105 (attempted murder) and part 2 of article 282 (incitement hatred with violence).

The head of the Moscow expert institution of the non-governmental Center for Forensic Expertise, Vasily Kostyuchenko, stated that “There can be no talk of any incitement of hatred here; this would be going too far in the event of such a drunken outburst. If I stand at the monument to Mayakovsky and call for the chocks to be driven out of Moscow, then this It will be more like inciting hatred."

Information provided by the Interregional Human Rights Association "AGORA".

Sources

• Azar I. Russia for Russians according to the law // Gazeta.Ru. 2009. August 27.