The police strengthened security measures near the court building in Moscow, where hearings began in the case of the murder of Nemtsov

Security measures were reinforced near the building of the Moscow District Military Court, where preliminary hearings began in the case of the murder of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov. According to Echo of Moscow , a court building within a radius of three hundred meters is cordoned off by the police.

Journalists are not allowed to the entrance. Law enforcement officers explain this by the fact that today's meeting is held closed. OMON is on duty nearby. According to Interfax , metal fences are installed on the approaches to the building that block the approach along the sidewalk. Only participants in the process are allowed into the building. Not far from the court, several police buses are parked. Journalists are on the opposite side of the street.

Supporters of the murdered politician with the icons of the Nemtsov bridge came to the court. According to RBC , several people took turns standing with single pickets and deployed large posters demanding to find murder customers and interrogate the head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov.

Activists of "Solidarity" today picked the court where the consideration of the case of the murder of Boris Nemtsov Pic.twitter.com/d1c91CFMC7 began

- Ilya Yashin (@lyayashin) July 25, 2016

The defendants want to appear before the jury

The press secretary of the court Irina Zhirnova told Interfax that the accused had already been taken to court. They, as you know, are five: the former fighter of the North battalion Zaur Dadaev, as well as his relatives, the brothers Anzor and Shadid Gubashev, and their acquaintances Temirlan Eskerkhanov and Khamzat Bakhaev. They all do not admit guilt and asked for their jury to be considered. The court granted the petition of the defendants, RBC was told by the lawyer of the main accused Shamsudin Tsakaev.

Meanwhile, the Moscow District Military Court denied this message. “The court has not yet made such a decision. The defendants and their defense today filed a petition for the consideration of the case by the jury by the court, but the court has not yet made a decision on it,” the court press secretary Irina Zhirnova told RIA Novosti .

Boris Nemtsov was shot dead on a large Moskvoretsky bridge next to the Kremlin in the evening of February 27, 2015. On the fact of the murder, a criminal case was opened under Articles 105 ("Murder") and 222 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Illegal turnover of weapons").

The proposed crime performers Zaur Dadaev, Khamzat Bakhaev, Temirlan Eskerkhanov, Anzor Gubashev and Shadid Gubashev will appear before the court in this case. In June 2016, the Investigative Committee said that he completed the investigation of the case of the murder of Nemtsov and sent him to the prosecutor's office. The case against the organizers and customers of the murder was allocated in a separate production.

The lawyers of the victims in this case demanded to interrogate "for the organization of the murder" a number of high -ranking Chechen officials, including the head of the republic, Ramzan Kadyrov. However, investigators refused to do this.

The results of the investigation were dissatisfied with the defense of the defendants, and the lawyers Zhanna Nemtsova, the daughter of the murdered politician recognized as the victim in the case. The former claim that the charges are full of contradictions and is not confirmed by the case file. The latter pay attention to the fact that the investigation refused to recognize the connection between the murder of Boris Nemtsov and his political and social activities. In addition, the case file does not even have a hint of the alleged customers of the crime, the Radio "Freedom" notes.