Should I strangle pensioners in the bathhouse?

The Investigative Committee once again extended for three months the term of the preliminary investigation on charges of employees of the Kopeisk Internal Affairs Directorate of the death of a pensioner Anatoly Ryzhov. In total, as the employees of the Public Verdict Foundation explain, the investigation of the criminal case has been going on for 18 months. Currently, the accused continue to get acquainted with the case file. Employees of the Internal Affairs Directorate are accused of causing death by negligence (part 1 of article 109 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and exceeding official powers (part 3 of article 286 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

According to lawyers of the “public verdict”, who represent the interests of the relatives of the deceased, in the actions of officials it is possible to see the infliction of death by negligence. However, the investigation delayed the verification of this crime until the time when the statute of limitations has already expired. In order to avoid liability for delaying the investigation, the investigation decided to attract police officers on the fact of excess of official powers. The combination of materials in a new case, apparently, is associated with the calculation of interested parties for the fact that during the trial of the prosecution of exceeding the official powers will be removed. And the case of causing death by negligence can be closed by the expiration of the statute of limitations. Thus, the police will not be punished for their crime.

In March 2011, Sergey Ryzhov, who lives in the city of Kopeisk (Chelyabinsk region), turned to the Public Verdict. In his statement, he said that in the evening of August 2, 2010 his mother called him, and said that at the dacha of his father, Anatoly Ryzhov, there were police officers, and "something strange is happening there." Arriving at the place, Ryzhov did not find his father, but learned from the neighbors that a few hours earlier, three police officers arrived at his father’s site and climbed over the fence to the site. At this time, the pensioner drowned the bathhouse. Seeing the armed people, the pensioner was scared, ran into the bathhouse and closed from the inside. The police demanded that Ryzhov come out, threatening that if he did not fulfill their demands, then they themselves would “smoke” him from there. The pensioner refused to go out.

After that, one of the policemen found a bucket in the garden, climbed onto the roof of the bath and tried to close the chimney to them. However, the bucket turned out to be too big, and the smoke continued to go outside. Then another policeman took a pan, smaller diameter, and put it on the pipe, leaning with rags. As a result, about 20 minutes Ryzhov was in a bath without air. After that, the police broke the door. A pensioner who was unconscious was pulled out into the street, a man began to cramp. Someone called an ambulance, which arrived in 15 minutes. By this moment, the police werehed away from soot and doused Ryzhov with water. The ambulance doctors insisted on the call of resuscitation, which arrived in another quarter of an hour and took the man. The doctors failed to save the poisoned pensioner poisoned by carbon monoxide. Anatoly Ryzhov died in the hospital in Kopeisk.

As it turned out later, the problems with the police at Ryzhov arose from behind the wind gun, with whom he went hunting and held at home. Ryzhov several times called the district police officer, who, according to the pensioner, threatened him with the words “I will be a fifty cross, I’ll be curtailed” (Ryzhov was convicted of hooliganism 14 years ago). The pensioner perceived these words as a threat of reprisal, but he did not name the name of the district police officer then.

More details with the Anatoly Ryzhov case can be found on the website of the Public Verdict Foundation