The moment of attack on Kashin was shot on the video. The journalist may need trepanation

After a detailed examination of the place of attack on the journalist of the Kommersant newspaper Oleg Kashin in Moscow, the operatives began to study records from video surveillance cameras, which recorded the moment of the crime, RIA Novosti told the investigation to the investigative bodies of the capital.

"Currently, videos are being studied, one of the records has a fact of an attack on a journalist. Videos are also studied from cameras of houses located near the attack site," the source said.

According to the investigation, the two attackers inflicted the strongest attacks with reinforcement with the correspondent. Law enforcement agencies immediately shared the version of the attack with the aim of robbery, since the criminals did not take away any values ​​with them.

The head of the information and public relations of the capital's Central Internal Affairs Directorate, Viktor Biryukov, said that the best detectives of the Moscow criminal investigation department entered the investigative-operational group to investigate the attack, and the police asks witnesses to inform the information known to them that are related to the crime.

"So far, none of the witnesses has responded. We ask the witnesses of the crime to inform the internal affairs bodies all the information known to them that is related to the attack," Biryukov said.

Meanwhile, according to Life News , a consultation of doctors, gathered on Sunday morning in the walls of the 36th clinical hospital of Moscow, decides the issue of the possibility of Oleg Kashin in a difficult operation. Doctors call Kashin’s health stably severe.

“Kashin was transferred from general resuscitation to neuroreumation,” the clinic doctors told Life News. “The packed skull is most concerned about us. The patient needs trepanation.”

The best doctors of the capital, including the chief neurosurgeon of Moscow, Vladimir Krylov and the chief anesthetist-resuscitator Evgeny Evdokimov discuss with colleagues all the pros and cons of the skull trepanation under the current state Kashin.

The correspondent of the newspaper Kommersant Oleg Kashin was brutally beaten in Moscow at about 00:40 on November 6. In serious condition, with a broken jaw, lower leg and fingers, the injured was hospitalized in the intensive care of the 36th city hospital. The editor-in-chief of the newspaper Mikhail Mikhailin connects the attack with the professional activities of Kashin, which specializes in socio-political topics.

The criminal case was originally instituted under part 3 of Article 30 and Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (attempted murder). By the evening of Saturday, the investigation re -qualified him for a heavier one - “attempted murder committed by a group of persons,” said Vladimir Markin, official representative of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.

Russian and international journalistic communities and organizations supported Oleg Kashin. The executive director of the international organization Committee in Defense of Journalists Joel Simon expressed his indignation at the journalist, reports Echo of Moscow .

He notes the importance that President Medvedev demanded to find and punish those responsible for this crime. However, says Simon, the Russian government also bears a significant share of responsibility for what happened.

As noted in the committee’s statement, being unable to find and condemn the perpetrators in numerous previous murders and attacks on journalists, the government created an atmosphere of impunity in the country. To show signs of real political will to protect the independent press were demanded by the Russian authorities and general secretary of another international organization "Reporters without borders".