Mikhail Kosenko: Speech in court

The speech of the accused on the “May 6 case” Mikhail Kosenko on cassation on September 24, 2012 in the Moscow City Court. “The accusation of the riots is slander against me and all. We must be released. In any normal country, such power would not endure such power. Putin and all his friends, those who rules this country, appropriated power by violating the constitution. They must leave, ”said Mikhail Kosenko. Despite the fact that Kosenko is a disabled person of the 2nd group and repeatedly complained about the non-ordering of medical care, the court decided to leave him under arrest.

I'm not going to complain, refer to my health or something else.

I believe that the charges of mass riots against me and others are slander. The aggressive side was riot police. If you watch the video that showed on the rain, then there was such a situation: the crowd tried to break through the cordon, some part broke out, they were detained, and then everything was calm. All other aggressive actions were on the part of riot police, and not from the side of the demonstrators, because riot police constantly pressed, rushed at people, grabbed them.

What charges of arson do you mean? What is the destruction of property? The property there is the following: a few overturned asphalt toilets, and the clubs selected from the police. Когда массовые беспорядки происходят, то бьют витрины, поджигают машины; There was none of this, there was no intent. When people want to destroy property, they do not go to take off the batons from the police. The accusation of the riots is slander against me and all. We must be released. In any normal country, such power would not endure such power. Putin and all his friends, those who rules this country have appropriated power by violating the constitution. [They] must leave.

No one is guilty of all the detainees in the case on May 6. As for violence, riot police applied. They use violence, and then complain; And I read a lot of testimonies of people, participants in the demonstration, I read 5 volumes and there are only 3 participants: two call themselves the victims, and one simply testifies to the fact that he said “you will burn in hell”, he was calculated and called on this so that he would give explanations.

There is no right to blame me and other participants. We were right, we had to do this.

I ask you to take into account the fact that I did not beat Kozmin with my hands and legs, it is slander. And there were no riots in Bolotnaya Square. There were riots only from the side of the riot police.

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