In Tatarstan, a police officer was suspected of negligence leading to the death of a fisherman

In Tatarstan, a criminal case has been initiated against the assistant operational duty officer of the Department of Internal Affairs for the Laishevsky district, L. Tikhonova, who is suspected of negligence, which negligently resulted in the death of activist of the Federation of Amateur Fishermen of the Republic Sergei Elesin (Part 2 of Article 293 of the Criminal Code). The Kazan Human Rights Center, which represents the interests of the relatives of the deceased, reported this to Mediazona.

On October 10, 2015, Elesin called 112 and reported that he was being chased in a car by two men who were threatening him with physical harm. The dispatcher sent this information to the police and fire department located in the city of Laishevo. The police were unable to receive the message due to a downed power line. An employee of the fire department called the police on his own initiative and passed on the information to the operational duty officer, Major E. Sizov and the assistant to the operational duty officer L. Tikhonova.

According to the investigation, foreman Tikhonov did not indicate in the record book that Elesin was being pursued in a car, threatening physical harm. The police officer did not call the fisherman and did not take any measures to establish the circumstances of the incident and clarify Elesin’s whereabouts. From the case materials it follows that Tikhonova only sent a message to the traffic police crew without informing about the threat to Elesin’s life and health. The traffic police crew, in turn, did not find the fisherman and were unable to contact him because his phone was turned off.

Activist of the Federation of Amateur Fishermen of Tatarstan Sergei Elesin was killed on October 10, 2015 near the village of Peschanye Kovali. The Sitdikov brothers were accused of his murder: 27-year-old Ramis and 22-year-old Fanis; they are charged with Part 2 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code. Fanis is also charged under Part 2 of Article 167 of the Criminal Code (deliberate destruction of someone else’s property, if these acts caused significant damage, committed by arson).

According to investigators, the defendants pulled the fisherman out of the car, beat him with their hands and a shovel, inflicting at least 20 blows on him, then put his body in his car and drove away. An hour later, Fanis returned, doused the car with gasoline and set it on fire.