Experts are outraged by the attack on the participants of the Memorial contest

The attack on the participants in the historical competition organized by the "Memorial" is outrageous. This opinion was expressed on his page on the social network Facebook, the deputy executive director of the Voice Association, a specialist in the field of public surveillance of the election, Grigory Melkonian.

He believes that activists of the NOD, the national liberation movement are directly related to the attack. In the initial reports of the NOD attack, it was not mentioned, but later information about the involvement of this organization in the incident was extended in the media.

“The day of rehearsal of the parade in Moscow is overshadowed by at least two outrageous events.

First. Activists of the Nod and the Eurasian Youth Union attacked participants in the school historical competition held by the Memorial Society. When schoolchildren and jury members began to enter the building, several activists threw eggs into them. To the writer and chairman of the jury, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, ran behind and sprinkled into the tin of green from the syringe. The historian Anatoly Golubovsky from the "free historical society" sprinkled from a syringe into the face of ammonia. Activists of the NOD chanted the children: "Nazis!"; towards teachers: "Not teachers, but litter!" Frightened , frightened, quickly ran inside. All participants and organizers of the competition disappeared inside the cinema house. The media reports that the police detained one of the attackers , ”wrote Grigory Melkonants.

He proposed to learn the details of the incident from the media from the link he had given. He called the decision of the Meshchansky court of Moscow, which fined the movement “for human rights” for 900 thousand rubles “for the distribution of materials without designating the status of a“ foreign agent ”, while the organization is already excluded from the registry”. He also proposed to find out the details of this incident from the press .

In inaction and conspiracy with the organizers of the attack, he suspected law enforcement officers member of the Council of the Human Rights Council of the Memorial, a member of the Expert Council under the Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia Alexander Cherkasov. He expressed this assumption on his Facebook page, commenting on the video of how one of the attack participant calmly talks with the police.

He also commented on publications in the media that NOD denies his involvement in the attack, expressing doubt about the reliability of the statements of representatives of the movement.

“As interesting, the NOD is not involved in the attack on the ceremony of the Memorial Competition. Katasonova (head of the youth direction of the NODA Maria Katasonova - approx. Corny) , it turns out, was on promotions on a personal initiative. And also Daniil Ganich (deputy head of the Central Staff of the NOD). And Evgenia Pasechnik (coordinator of the Moscow headquarters of the NOD) also exclusively on his own initiative, accompanied by two gopniks, was mistaken in the hall. What are the independent and initiative associates of the deputy Fedorov, ”Cherkasov wrote.