The absurd business of Konstantinov

The court re -qualified the "murder" into "hooliganism" and immediately amnestied the defendant, human rights activists consider the process a political

The Chertanovsky court of Moscow re -qualified the charges of the "murder" for "hooliganism" by Nationalist Daniil Konstantinov. He was sentenced to three years of colony of settlement and immediately amnestied, freeing from punishment right in the courtroom.

His case was considered from June 9, 2014. The leader of the Moscow Defense League and the active participant in the general civil protests Daniil Konstantinov was accused of killing a young man on a street fight on December 3, 2011.The prosecutor's office asked Konstantinov to be sentenced to 10 years in prison. Lawyers insisted on his complete innocence on the basis of the solebibian Alibi .

The Konstantinov family claims that they all celebrated Daniel’s mother’s birthday in the restaurant’s birthday in the restaurant. In the investigation of the case, the Main Directorate for Combating Extremism of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia (ED Center) took an active part in the investigation. According to the father of Daniel, Ilya Konstantinov, the case was initiated after his son was detained in pure ponds after the rally "for honest elections" on December 5, 2011. When an employee of the Center “E” invited Daniel to become an informant, he refused.

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Sentence and Liberation of Konstantinov

On March 22, Daniil Konstantinov was arrested on charges of murder of the 24-year-old fan of punk rock Alexander Temnikov. According to investigators, this happened during a fight near the exit from the metro station “Academician Youngel Street”, where Daniil Konstantinov was in the company of several more people, and it was he who hit several times with a knife and killed the man. Allegedly, Konstantinov did not like his appearance. This is what Daniil Konstantinov himself spoke about this version in his last word :

Once Konstantinov mentioned the doctor that he does not like Pankov

“I am accused of that on December 3, 2011, on my mother, Konstantinova Galina Alekseevna, I, for an unidentified goal, for an unidentified reason, with unidentified persons, unidentified way, went to the end of the city, where the Pankovs got involved in a quarrel and killed the man who was unknown to my appearance and killed an unknown person who was unknown to me In an unknown way, the investigators went to Konstantinov. The pocket in the company of unknown scumbags. ”

Member of the Moscow Public Supervisory Commission Anna Karenikova , who monitored the process in the case of Daniil Konstantinov, called the "Absurd theater" in court:

-It’s all the whole thing with white threads, at some stage it was necessary to find a motive, why suddenly Konstantinov decided to kill this young man unknown to him. And such a motive was found. Once Konstantinov, in my opinion, mentioned the doctor, who did not like Pankov. And the investigation worked out the version that the murder was completely for this reason. The only witness to the prosecution - Alexei Sofronov - was a friend of the murdered. And when he was brought to court, he suddenly had whiskey and pigtails in the middle, as the punks wear, although he had nothing like that before.

Ilya Konstantinov, father Daniil

Daniel’s father, Russian political and public figure Ilya Konstantinov , who in 1993 after the assault on the White House (today - the House of the Russian Government, then the House of Russian Councils) spent several months in a Lefortovo prison on charges of organizing riots. Ilya Konstantinov said in December 2013 that he was tortured in the pre -trial detention center . On the air of Radio Liberty, Ilya Konstantinov also talked about the fact that the investigation intentionally ignored the facts confirming Alibi Daniil:

- Nobody checked my son Alibi - and this is the whole cynicism of the situation. Because Alibi was declared two and a half years ago, both the investigation, the prosecutor’s office, and the court had all the possibilities of this alibi in an exhaustive way to check. But the fact is that all the forces of the so -called law enforcement agencies were just thrown to try to question this Alibi. Therefore, in fact, this was the case. They, so to speak, dug, searched, tried to find some witnesses from the restaurant, for example, where we were on that unfortunate day-December 3, 2011, when we celebrated our mother’s birthday-who would say: “But we did not see anyone. We did not know whether we were there or not.” We searched for some checks that would question the amount of the order. "You say that you walked for 15 thousand, but you see, there is a smaller amount here." Well, other nonsense. But in essence: Alibi was not investigated by a consequence or a court.

Dmitry Dinze, lawyer Daniil Konstantinov

Lawyer Daniil Konstantinov Dmitry Dinze on the eve of the sentence announced three possible options for the development of events: an acquittal, a conviction with real deprivation of liberty and the third option - re -qualification (this scenario was chosen by Judge Julia Chernikova) on the basis of circumstances that the court will see in the criminal case materials. And there are such circumstances, says Dmitry Dinze :

- There, not far from the metro, quite large clots of blood were discovered, where a fight may began, but this blood was not examined. And, accordingly, the version was not checked that the fight began in a completely different place, and subsequently with unidentified faces, the fight moved to the metro, where, respectively, it ended with certain consequences. This is one of these details that was interested in the court, in connection with which the case was sent for the investigation. The investigator interrogated the metro and sent the case back to the court for consideration on the merits, considering that this actually established all the circumstances that the court at that time of the first instance asked to establish, when sending the case for the investigation.

The main executor of this order was the Main Directorate for Combating Extremism of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation

Daniil’s father, Ilya Konstantinov is sure that the law enforcement system as a whole is interested in influential people from law enforcement agencies against his son and in the indictment:

-Since this lasts so long, it means that there are still some serious forces behind this. Unfortunately, in all this time we could not establish a specific customer of this criminal reprisal. We do not know his name. We know that the main executor of this order was such a division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which is called the "Main Directorate for Combating Extremism of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation." This is a very serious structure, it is also sometimes called the Center "E". And from the documents that we have, it follows that it was the GUPE Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation that the criminal plan was implemented. But who acted as the customer - we still do not know significantly. The work of the investigation came down to at all costs to question Alibi, to clean the documents, to erase the records of surveillance cameras, and destroy material evidence. Well, then the usual circulation of law enforcement officers is already included for our country. Because when it continues for such a long time, operational workers change, investigators are changing. There were already six investigators in our business. The judges are changing. And each next round of this repressive pressure involves more and more new people into this business. And today it is already a point that dozens of law enforcement officers personally participated in the persecution of Daniil Konstantinov.

Oppositionist Alexei Navalny stated in court, where he was called a witness together with the State Duma deputy Dmitry Gudkov that the leader of the Moscow League of the Moscow Defense Konstantinov could not commit the murder of which he was accused. Alexey Navalny collaborated with Daniil Konstantinov in the “Civil Council” and the movement “People”, and Gudkov in the Youth Department of “Fair Russia”.

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Konstantinov’s case was sent for the investigation

If he is not persecuted for the preaching of violence or violence itself, then the views of his role do not play

In October 2013, the Memorial human rights company included Daniil Konstantinov in a list of 70 political prisoners of Russia, which also included the members of the Pussy Ryot group, the defendants in the so -called "swamp business" and ecologists from "Greenpeace", detained after the action on the "Prirazlomnaya". At a meeting of Vladimir Putin with representatives of the non -systemic opposition, politician Vladimir Ryzhkov handed the president a list of political prisoners, which Putin promised to carefully study.

Konstantinov opposed illegal migration and ethnic crime. These are called "moderate nationalists." Member of the Council of the Human Rights Center "Memorial" Sergey Davidis is sure that Daniil Konstantinov did not commit a murder, and the question of his political views in this case is not appropriate:

Sergey Davidis

- The Memorial is guided by completely formalized criteria, if it is not persecuted for the preaching of violence or violence itself, then the views of its role do not play. The situation with Konstantinov, and as far as I can judge his views, he was a relatively moderate nationalist, that is, he did not call for violence, but in any case he is poured in a completely different connection, so the question of his views did not stand. On the eve of the elections to the State Duma, late in the evening, Konstantinov, instead of going to his mother’s birthday, went to the other end of Moscow and without any reason, due to the “unexpectedly arising hostility” he stabbed a certain person with a knife. The only evidence is the testimony of the witness, a friend of the person who was killed, Alexei Sofronov, who changed his testimony three times and still, by the way, does not claim that he saw the moment of the murder. Only during the time that has passed since the murder, he committed about 20 apartment thefts and was twice sentenced to conditional terms, which makes him, of course, a person completely dependent. Moreover, after identification, Konstantinov was arrested only after three months. The case contains all the signs of obvious inconsistencies, falsifications and a certain order.

On April 29, 2012, the leaders of the opposition, among them Sergey Baburin, Dmitry Gudkov, Harry Kasparov, Konstantin Krylov, Eduard Limonov, Vladimir Milov, Boris Nemtsov, Vladimir Thor and others signed a collective appeal to the Prosecutor General, the Minister of Internal Affairs and the Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia with a request to “take control of this case and ensure objective and ensure objective and ensure objective and ensure objective and ensure objective and ensure objective and ensure objective An unbiased investigation of all circumstances. "