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A suspect in a double murder in Kazan is ready to take a lie detector test
A resident of Kazan, candidate of philosophical sciences Igor Danilevsky, accused of murdering two women, insists on his innocence, explaining this confession by saying that he incriminated himself, and declares that he wants to undergo a polygraph examination.
“Igor Danilevsky today, during a meeting at the pre-trial detention center of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation in Tatarstan, asked me to convey to the investigator a request to check his testimony on a lie detector in terms of the psychological impact on him, as well as his non-involvement in the double murder of the Zaripovs,” he told the Interfax agency -Volga region" defense lawyer of the accused Shamil Akhmetsafin on Monday.
The lawyer explained that Danilevsky is so confident in his innocence that he is ready to undergo a polygraph test.
“My client said that he incriminated himself during the first interrogation, the video of which was posted on the website of the republican Ministry of Internal Affairs and was shown during the program “Let them talk” on Channel One on the evening of September 7,” the lawyer said
He said that, according to his client, he was given some pills that made him euphoric, the investigators asked leading questions, corrected his answers and demanded that he tell “everything in an accessible way, like in lectures.”
“In addition, my client reported that he was tortured with electric shock,” Akhmetsafin said.
At the same time, the lawyer noted, the confession document itself is puzzling. “The statement was not written by Igor Danilevsky himself, as it should be, especially in such a high-profile case, but was typed on a computer, with only a signature below,” the lawyer said.
The statement of appearance must be written in Danilevsky’s hand in order to exclude any possibility that the document was prepared in advance by someone and in order to subsequently determine the condition of the signatory at that time through a handwriting examination, the lawyer believes.
Akhmetsafin also said that, together with his client, he would challenge the outcome of the meeting of the Supreme Court of Tatarstan on September 7, when the second instance court supported the decision of the Vakhitovsky District Court to choose a preventive measure in the form of a 2-month arrest during the preliminary investigation.
“The meeting took place without Danilevsky’s participation, but he wanted to be at it. My petition was rejected, that is, the rights of the accused were violated,” the lawyer said. According to him, they will file a cassation appeal with the Presidium of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Tajikistan, and if they do not support it there, they will appeal to the Supreme Court of Russia.
“I understand that my client will not be left free during the investigation, but his rights should not be infringed,” Akhmetsafin said. In this regard, he recalled that in the future the defense and Danilevsky himself will insist that the case be tried by a jury.
“The way the Tatarstan Supreme Court rejected all my petitions shook the defense’s trust in the professional court, the belief that it would conduct an objective, complete and comprehensive study of all the circumstances of the case. The only hope is in the jury,” the lawyer explained.
A request for a trial by jury, according to him, will be filed upon completion of the preliminary investigation, which, in his opinion, will happen no earlier than in 4 months. “Currently the investigation deadline is October 29, but I’m sure it will be extended,” the lawyer said.
Previously, the lawyer reported that Danilevsky discarded thoughts of suicide that appeared to him after he confessed, including in the presence of local media. The accused, according to him, said that he “incriminated himself under psychological and physical pressure and intends to fight to the last for his good name.”
Two residents of Kazan were brutally murdered on August 22 in their apartment, but this became known only on August 29: neighbors called the police after smelling a corpse. A candidate of philosophical sciences, a former teacher at one of the Kazan universities (he was fired of his own free will in June 2012), 38-year-old Igor Danilevsky, a former classmate and lover of the youngest of the victims, confessed to the murder. According to the case materials, Danilevsky had many debts to banks and, having promised a fellow student to marry, persuaded her to take out a loan for him in order to pay off creditors. He also promised her a vacation in Egypt, but later, citing a lack of money, he offered to go to Simferopol, and on August 22 he said that this trip would have to be postponed to January. Reproaching the woman for constant deception, the suspect grabbed a knife and stabbed her, and then her mother as a witness. Danilevsky also stole his receipt for money, 100 thousand rubles, two cell phones and disappeared. All this was found in the defendant’s apartment during a search.
He told investigators that after the double murder, before leaving the apartment, in order to divert suspicion from himself and create the appearance of a ritual murder, he folded the bodies of the victims in a certain way (“69” - according to the apartment number) and wrote “Free! Pussy Riot” on the wall with their blood. .
Danilevsky was charged under Art. 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (murder of two or more persons). On August 31, the day after his arrest, the Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan arrested him for 2 months - until October 29. Defenders challenged the ruling, but the Supreme Court of Tatarstan upheld it on September 7. Mother Galina Danilevskaya and both contract lawyers Shamil Akhmetsafin and Eduard Ivanov, according to I. Danilevsky, told the media and the investigation that he incriminated himself under pressure from law enforcement agencies. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tatarstan categorically denied these statements, the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee is conducting an investigation at the request of the lawyers.