About the mills of the Lord, the ECHR and the "Swamp Delivery"

In my speech in the debate in the court in the case of Ivan Nepomnya, I said literally the following:

“Dear court! For six months now, we have been considering at the hearing the case regarding my client, non -remembered Ivan Andreevich. And during this time they investigated a huge amount of testimony, material evidence and documents. And of them, of all, in my deep conviction, it is necessary to conclude that everything that happened on Bolotnaya Square on May 06, 2012 was a consequence of violations of the government and law enforcement agencies of the official coordination of the mass event “Millions”, unprofessional actions of the police through the passage of participants in the march, as well as the unjustified, rigid rigidity of the actions of law enforcement officers regarding peaceful unarmed citizens. ... Of course, I did not forget about the existence of Art. 90 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation (an article on the prejudice, obliging the court to recognize the decisions of the previous courts in the “swamp case” —s. Sch-d.) And allowed himself to express his point of view only because the protection continues to dispute previous court decisions in other instances. ”

And how I looked into the water!

On January 5, 2016, the European Court of Human Rights in Strassburg (ECHR) announced a decision in the case of E. Frumkin against the Russian Federation. The case is an ordinary for the “Bolotnaya”: the detained on May 6, 2012 in the square Yevgeny Frumkin received 15 days of administrative arrest in our “beloved” Art. 19.3 Code of Administrative Offenses. Having lost all the courts in Russia (who would doubt it!), He filed a complaint with the ECHR, which was supported by the lawyers of the Memorial PC. And won the case.

The ECHR in his decision ordered the Russian Federation to pay E. Frumkin a compensation in the amount of 25 thousand euros. And he pointed out numerous violations during the courts in Russia: a violation of the right to defense (well, why do our courts call witnesses when everything is clear to them?), The biased proceedings only on the basis of police reports (is it familiar?), The unreasonableness of the detention (and who will mention the reasonable?) And so on, and the like ...

But the most important thing is that the ECHR admitted: the fault for the events of May 6, 2012 in Bolotnaya Square lies with the authorities that violated all their Russian laws that day, no matter how imperfect, no matter how repressive in relation to citizens they are on their own. And they were broken! And one more thing: that in Bolotnaya there was an overclocking of a peaceful demonstration of the police with excessive use of violence.

Everything, gentlemen are good! No “mass riots” to you - unless you yourself need this very Art. 212 of the Criminal Code to judge.

Yes, as they say, “and year (more precisely and more than three years) has not passed” - but caught up! Because slowly the mills are shaking the gods, but diligently shaking! Because no matter how rope it is ...

Because in a simple way: God is not a fraer, history is not a whore!

And this is only the first swallow from the shaft of the claims that the ECHR is considering on the "swamp". Now his still upcoming decisions are already clear.

PS I do not know if we will be able to recapture Ivan the Nepomnya at the appeal in his case, relying on this decision of the ECHR. We will try. Although we do not experience any special illusions regarding our ships. But what we can now - not us defenders, but all of us is to say firmly about our rightness. And no matter how slowly the gentlemen of the mill, the flour of them comes out of the real, better grinding.