Cobblestone came to the finish line

Arrested in Crimea for participation in the events on the Maidan announced torture in the SIZO Simferopol. Yegor Skovoroda figured out how the former Crimean policeman, publicly accusing the editor -in -chief of the Moscow Komsomolets, Pavel Gusev of involvement in human trafficking, himself turned out to be accused in the 10x10x12 cm cobblestone case, a year ago aimedly abandoned in the ensign from Berkut.

"Political prostitution changed the floor"

On September 11, 2013, two Crimean policemen, Stanislav Krasnov and Alexander Kostenko arrived in Kyiv and held a press conference there. On it, the lieutenant and senior lieutenant of the Kyiv district branch of Simferopol told about the criminal case against the chief editor of the Russian newspaper Moscow Komsomolets Pavel Gusev, which was investigated by their department. According to them, on May 28, 2013, Natalia Shugalskaya appealed to the police, who said that the unknown people stole her in Simferopol, and she woke up already in Moscow, where she was forced to engage in prostitution. The victim does not remember any details, except that her abduction was allegedly organized by Pavel Gusev. “To us in the Kiev regional department to the investigator who conducted this case, they called from the Consulate of the Russian Federation, well, to find out specifically there, sho and how it happens, who is conducting the case. And after that, the next day, the head of the investigation department, immediately, the deputy prosecutor of the Kiev regional department by the name of Baylem said that the case must be stopped immediately at all costs, ”Stanislav Krasnov said at a press conference. “My colleague and I never hid their nationalist views. We believe that Ukraine has already completely suffered from the northern neighbor in its history. And we do not understand why today our girls suffer humiliations in Russia, and our authorities cannot protect them. It is well known what influential acquaintances of Gusev have. This is the same Khinshtein. And spokesman Medvedev Natalya Timakova. And the governor of the Moscow region Vorobyov. And even the Minister of Defense Shoigu made him his public adviser. Pavel Gusev is a person who is directly related to the Russian government. To the authorities, which for some reason they are afraid with us in Ukraine. And they go to a direct violation of the law and the rights of their citizens on the first whistle from Moscow. And we, ordinary internal affairs officers, all that we can do in this situation is to tell about this to the public, ”the press release of Krasnov and Kostenko said .

Stanislav Krasnov. Photo: Personal page on Facebook

The Moscow Komsomolets categorically rejected all the accusations against its editor -in -chief, calling them the next provocation organized in revenge for the article “Political Prostitution changed the floor” published in March 2013. The text was about the deputies of the State Duma, who were really very offended by the article. Alexander Kostenko and Stanislav Krasnov after the press conference quit the police, and no longer remembered the criminal case against Gusev. Last winter, former colleagues went to Kyiv, where they took an active part in protest on the Maidan. Krasnov now serves in the zone in the ATO in the east of Ukraine. Kostenko a month ago arrested the Kyiv district court of Simferopol.

"Stone with these characteristics"

“Recall that the initiation of a criminal case on the fact of an encroachment on the life of the fighters of the Crimean special forces“ Golden Eagle ”during the mass riots in Kyiv in February this year, from the radical activists of the Maidan, became one of the first decisions of the prosecutor of the Republic of Natalia Poklonskaya. Currently, 49 fighters have been recognized as victims, ”the press service of the Crimean prosecutor’s office writes not without pride, reporting the arrest of Kostenko. At the same time, the decision of the Kyiv District Court of Simferopol on the arrest of Kostenko of February 8 (is at the disposal of the Mediazons) indicates that the criminal case against him was instituted by the Investigative Department of the RF IC in the Republic of Crimea only on February 6, 2015 - on the same day that Kostenko was detained. He is accused of intentionally causing easy harm to health, perfect based on ideological hatred (clause “B” of part 2 of Article 115 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). According to investigators, in January 2014, Kostenko arrived in Kyiv on the Maidan "in order to provide armed resistance to law enforcement officers." On the morning of February 18, he allegedly was on Mikhail Grushevsky Street - there the barricades were “erected” and the Berkut fighters, sent from Crimea, were on duty. About 14 hours on the street of Grushevsky, the demonstrators began to throw the fighters of the Crimean "Golden Eagle" "with stones, sticks and other objects." Then Alexander Kostenko, “experiencing a sense of ideological hatred and enmity for employees of the internal affairs bodies,” armed with “stones with dimensions of 10x10x12 cm (paving stones)” and aimedly threw a “stone with the indicated characteristics” in the target of the ensign V. Polienko. As the investigation insists, as a result, the employee of the Crimean “Golden Eagle” Polienko received damage “in the form of an extensive hematoma in the left shoulder in the middle and lower third”. Applying about the arrest, investigator Odarchenko Yu.V. He indicated that Article 115 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation is of small gravity and does not provide for conclusion in jail. However, in the case of Alexander Kostenko, this “is an exceptional measure” - since he allegedly disappeared from the preliminary investigation authorities, he himself did not report a crime, and also has a passport of a citizen of Ukraine.

“In addition, the investigation found that A. Kostenko He held a leading position in the Ukrainian Radical-Nationalistic political party “Freedom”, whose members committed a number of crimes in February 2014 in Kyiv Ukraine, ”the investigator insisted. “The court considers it necessary to choose a measure of restraint in the form of detention as an exceptional measure, since a less stringent preventive measure will not ensure the proper behavior of the suspect during the preliminary investigation period,” the judge Dolgopolov decided and arrested the accused for two months. At the same time, the judge was shaken by the arguments of the defense that Kostenko had no intention to hide from the investigation, "since this trial is not presented."

"Stole and transported to the peninsula"

The Ukrainian Party "Freedom" officially stated that Kostenko had never been in it. His comrade in the service of the Crimean police, Stanislav Krasnov, claims that he was together with Kostenko during the events on the Maidan and that he did not participate in clashes on Grushevsky Street. “I well remember the day when there was a clash of protesters with law enforcement officers, including with the Crimean Berkut in the Mariinsky Park. The police then went on the offensive, there was a threat that she would capture the International Center for Culture and Arts (October Palace). The doctors who were there had to urgently evacuate the wounded, medical equipment, and medicines. Alexander helped them, ”Krasnov told the Ukrainian publication“ Facts and Comments ”. According to him, during the Maidan, he and Alexander Kostenko “were deputy commandants in the building of the Kyiv City Hall, dealt with organizational issues”, and after the victory of the rebels Kostenko organized the “Fund for helping the families of the dead and wounded during the events in the Euromaidan”. Krasnov says that the last time I saw a friend in Kyiv in the fall, when he was treated after a wound in the east of Ukraine - Krasnov in the media is called the commander of the Volunteer battalion "Crimea"; Kostenko collected money to help this battalion.

“I am convinced that the Russian special services stole him and sent him to the occupied peninsula,” said Stanislav Krasnov, according to whom Kostenko disappeared in Kyiv for some time before his arrest, and his father came to look for anything about his son. He is sure that Kostenko would not return to Crimea himself: “It was practically excluded - he knew that the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation is looking for him in Crimea. To Sashin, the address in Simferopol has repeatedly sent the agenda for interrogation. ” In the Crimean apartment, Krasnov himself also took a search. How Kostenko again ended up in the Crimea, is indeed unclear, confirms Dmitry Makarov from the Crimean Field Mission to Human Rights. The investigation insists that the activist was detained in Simferopol, and that unregistered firearms were discovered there in his apartment - however, the activist has not yet been charged on this score.

"The Committee for the Protection of the Rights of People who suffered from the Maidan"

“Not only did A. Kostenko It was delivered to you after applying to it with harm to the health of medium severity, so he is still regularly subjected to beating (from the side of the cellmates-MZ), ”the statement of the lawyer Dmitry Sotnikov, sent by the administration of the SIZO-1 SIZO-1 SIZO-1 SIZO-1, said. According to the lawyer, on February 20, the investigator Odarchenko said that Kostenko would certainly refuse his services, and already on the 24th Kostenko told the defender that he was beaten by cellmates.

Alexander Kostenko. Photo: Crimean field mission on human rights / Facebook

Alexander Kostenko himself, in a letter published by human rights defenders, confirms that cellmates are constantly mocking him. “I'm afraid to file complaints to the administration of the pre-trial detention center because of the threats constantly coming from a person who is sometimes coming into a civilian in a civilian. I am required to testify against my comrades who were with me on the Maidan. I have not committed any crimes against Berkut, all this is invented, ”the prisoner writes. Olga Skripnik, Deputy Head of the Crimean Field Mission of Human Rights, is confident that the case of Alexander Kostenko is pronounced political nature, and Russian law enforcement agencies should not investigate his investigation at all - events in which Kostenko were charged, and the accused and the victim were then citizens of Ukraine. Therefore, the pursuit of the activist itself by the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation violates all the principles of legality and territorial jurisdiction. There are also a lot of inconsistencies in the prosecution, the human rights activist says: “The elementary paradox is that the investigation in Simferopol established that a year ago in February 2014 Kostenko threw a stone size of 10 by 12 centimeters. That's how the consequence in Simferopol could establish this? These details, of course, lead to the conclusion that this is a very strange thing, and that its subtext is not to establish justice, but to repress certain activists. ” The script recalls that a year ago, a committee for the protection of the rights of people affected by the Maidan was created in Crimea, whose members actively collected data for participants in the events in Kyiv: “And now this information begins to emerge. Therefore, there are quite serious fears that, unfortunately, this will continue to be used to persecute the activists of the Euromaidan movement or participants in the Maidan himself in Kyiv. ”