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Interpol resumed the search for anti -fascist Silaev
Interpol decided to unlock information about the search for Russian Peter Silaev, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reports . In Russia, he is suspected of attacking the administration of the city of Khimki in 2010.
"The Interpol Control Commission decided to unlock information on the search for Silaev, born in 1985, put on the international wanted list on the initiative of Russian competent authorities. He is accused of hooliganism, committed by an organized group (part 2 of Article 213)," the message said.
On February 13, the Board of Criminal Cases of the National Court of Spain found that Silaev’s actions could not fall under Article 213 . The court found that Silaev only took part in the demonstration, but did not commit specific offenses. This was stated in the resolution on the refusal of Russia to extradite Silaev.
As Silaev noted, the court sharply responded about the actions of Russian law enforcement officers. "The journalist, the founder of an anti -fascist organization, who is currently persecuted for his anti -government activity, was elected the police as an accused exclusively because of his fame," Silaev quotes the court ruling. “Many people, including journalists, were subjected to illegal detention, threats, torture in order to obtain evidence against Silaev.”
On January 28, the National Audience of Spain (the court that considers particularly important cases, including terrorist activities) allowed Silaev to freely return to Finland , which had previously provided him with political asylum.
On August 31 of last year, Silaev was released from the Spanish prison on the basis of a letter of the Spanish professor, granted by his lawyers to the prosecutor's office of Spain. The professor, whose name was not called, guaranteed in a letter that Silaev would not leave the territory of Spain until the final resolving the issue of his extradition to Russia. On August 22, 2012 Silaev was arrested in the Spanish city of Granada. The arrest was made as part of the execution of an extradition request from Russia and the Order of Interpol.
In the arrest warrant issued by the Granada Police Department, Silaev was named one of the "terrorists", who "under the pretext of laying an underground passage in the Khimkinsky forest area attacked the city administration, shot from a pistol, threw the building with noise grenades and caused him significant damage in 395 thousand rubles." According to the order, the “terrorists” Alexei Gaskarov and Maxim Solopov are also on the wanted list.
In the spring of 2012, Silaev received refugee status in Finland, as well as additional protection in the form of a change in his personal data. He arrived in Spain according to his Finnish documents, but the Spanish authorities did not believe Silaev. They ignored all his explanations about the legal status, as well as evidence of the magistrate of the Finnish city in which he lives, about a change in the name.
Silaev was put on an international wanted list on the case of an attack on the building of the Khimki city administration. On July 28, 2010, a column of several hundred anti -fascists was march from the railway station to the building of the city administration, after which the participants of the action threw the building of the administration with stones, painted the walls and fired at the windows from traumatic pistols ( 