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"High" according to Vyshinsky
Lyubov Kovalev, the mother of Vladislav Kovalev, who was sentenced to shoot (in the picture in the courtroom, immediately after the announcement of the sentence), now he only hopes for the mercy of President Lukashenko, the “tower” on Vyshinsky. The 25-year-olds Dmitry Konovalov and Vladislav Kovalev, whom the Supreme Court of Belarus sentenced to death for undermining the metro in April of this year, most likely, no motion and petition for pardon will not save. Alexander Lukashenko does not like to mercy - he loves to execute. Only once over the entire term of his presidency, he replaced the death penalty for 20 years in prison. It was in 1996. The country's name still does not know the public publicity of business with this outcome in Belarus - the only country in Europe, where death sentences are executed - have not yet been betrayed. The trial of Kovalev and Konovalov was the first public process, and on it, as the head of the Commission on the President of Belarus Valery Mitskevich, the head of the President of Belarus, “proven everything” was told by The New Times. “Those who speak out on the Internet compiled an opinion on the basis of facts torn from a common canvas,” the official said. However, many have doubts about the guilt of the turner and the locksmith from Vitebsk. All the accusation is strictly according to Vyshinsky! - Built on the confessions of the accused, who also abandoned their testimonies.
Are you innocent? Judge Alexander Fedortsov really satisfied all the requirements of the prosecutor: two guys found guilty in several terrorist attacks and explosions at once. Among them is the April metro demolition, an explosion on Independence Day in Minsk in 2008, blown up urns at bus stops in Vitebsk, low -power submissions of the entrances without casualties. According to the court, these two are “an exceptional danger to society and the state”, because “terrorized Belarus” for 10 years in a row, since they were 15 years old. But how obvious everything is for judges, everything is so contradictory for ordinary Minskers.
Even during the judicial debate, Kovalev’s lawyer Stanislav Abrasey said that two “sitting in a cage” were innocent. The victim Andrei Tyshkevich says that when he was at the first court hearing, he had a firm confidence that precisely those who committed the attack on the dock. “But now I have no such confidence,” he says. The other victim, Lyudmila Tschko, does not believe that "two non-tales could do this." But even more interesting is the case of the victim Alexander Krutoy. His daughter Inessa was on that terrible evening in the subway, and her father at the very beginning of the hearing began to demand the abolition in Belarus of the death penalty and indicate the shortcomings of the investigation. After one of the meetings of Alexander, the police were seized and taken to a mental hospital. Later they placed in the Zhdinsky pre -trial detention center, drawing up a protocol under the article “Hooliganism”. The trial of Krutoy was appointed on December 6, but state psychiatrists have already recognized him as “inadequate”.
Of course, Lyubov Kovalev, who applied the presidential administration, does not believe in the guilt of his son and the mother of the “terrorist” to the “terrorist”. She fears that Vladislav could become a victim of a “judicial error”, and even asked the president: “Shoot me.”
There is really enough of them in this matter. Firstly, the investigation revealed neither customers nor the organizers of the attack-in his opinion, only performers were behind everything. The court was never able to identify the motives of the crime: Konovalov did not say anything intelligible on this subject. The prosecutor insisted that the defendant dreamed in this way to “become famous” and suffered from Rodion Raskolnikov’s complex, that is, he wanted to check how far he could go. Konovalov himself, a simple worker without education, replied to the corresponding question that he organized a terrorist attack “in order to intimidate the situation in the Republic of Belarus”. The term "destabilization", by the way, loves to repeat Lukashenko.
Secondly, it is amazing that the terrorist Konovalov, according to investigators, immediately after the atrocity did not hide from Minsk or leave the metro, hiding from the cameras, but simply intended to “celebrate” with the accomplice
Operation. And even more surprisingly, the police caught criminals in April in just a day, although before that she could not find them for 10 years.
Thirdly, it is not clear where traces of beatings came from the body of Konovalov if the prosecutor’s office and state TV claim that his detention was “clean”, without violence. In addition, the court never found out exactly how the investigation reached the apartment, which was rented by terrorists, and where and from whom Konovalov bought components for explosives. The Norwegian Brayvik, for example, bought them on ebay, and as Belorus did the purchases, remains unclear. The instructions for making a bomb of Konovalov also seemed to be found on the Internet, but on which specific sites is unknown.
Human rights activist Oleg Volchek, who once worked as an investigator of the prosecutor’s office, told The New Times that the investigation in the case of the attack was carried out extremely unsatisfactory. “I served in Afghanistan in a engineer-saperian company. And believe me, not every officer possessed knowledge that would allow him to make such a complex explosive device, ”he says and repeats:“ Neither the customer nor the executor of the attack. ” Experts of the FSB of Russia found that explosives were not done in Vitebsk. But no investigative actions to detect the place of manufacture were carried out. ”
It is also strange that even before the verdict in the case of the Vitebsk terrorists was announced, in this regional center, utilities began to urgently remove the basement, in which, according to official figures, Konovalov prepared explosives.
Those who do not believe those who do not believe in the guilt of suicide bombers in Belarus are thousands. According to a survey conducted on the website of Radio “Freedom”, the version of the investigation convinced only 21.2% of the resource visitors. Strictly speaking, finding in Minsk those who believe in justice are more difficult than those who do not trust him. More than 50 thousand signatures were collected on the Internet under the petition of Amnesty International against the death sentence to the accused. The human rights activist Lyudmila Gryaznova shares the opinion of many Belarusians: “In this case, the motive of the crime is unknown, it is unclear how in the basement without hood and special tools it was possible to make a bomb. There are too many questions left in the case in order to make a decision on the death penalty. ”
After the verdict was announced in the courtroom, it began to spread: “Shame!”, “On soap!” - And the defendants themselves did not react to their sentence. Kovalev was somehow excessively tense, and Konovalov was absolutely apathetic and indifferent to what was happening. Many had the impression that the executor of the attack was "under the high."
According to Belarusian laws, only President Alexander Lukashenko can cancel execution. But no one in Minsk believes in the mercy of the Old Man. “The judicial system of Belarus does not protect people, but fulfills a political order,” the former lieutenant colonel of the KGB of Belarus Valery Kostko told The New Times. - The authorities are in a hurry to put an end to this resonant business and forget it. And this means that Konovalov and Kovalev have no chance of preserving life. ”
The acute phase by Kovalev and Konovalov was condemned by the European Union, the Council of Europe and human rights activists. Germany completely demanded from Lukashenko to cancel it. However, the Belarusian president now does not care about the opinion of the West - "they are slandering." The regime that hesitated due to the most acute economic crisis and the search for investments and loans, again found the soil underfoot due to the intervention of the Kremlin. Russia has just halved the cost of gas for Belarus, promised to issue a loan by $ 10 billion for the construction of nuclear power plants (although experts say that the facility itself will take no more than $ 6 billion), and the EurAsEC allocated the second tranche of “stabilization” loan. Another $ 2.5 billion Minsk will receive in exchange for 50% of Baltransgaz - the agreements have already been reached. No wonder the Russian ambassador to Minsk, Alexander Surikov, said that "the acute phase of the Belarusian crisis is already behind." And if so - the “acute phase” of Lukashenkov’s obscurantism begins.
102 death sentences, according to the Department of Punishment of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus, were carried out in the country from 1998 to 2010. In 2006, 9 people were executed, in 2007 it was known about one executed, and in 2008-about 3 executed. In total, since 1991, more than 400 people have been shot in Belarus, mainly members of organized criminal groups.