In truth

The Primorsky Regional Court announced the acquittal of the Primorsky partisans on the murder of four drug dealers on the basis of the jury on the basis of the jury. This is reported by Interfax.

"The court decided to justify the defendants for the release of the crime event," said Judge Marina Karakuyan. The court also refused the victims to satisfy civil lawsuits for 6 million rubles. The court ruling also states that Alexander Nikitin and Vladimir Kovtun have the right to rehabilitation.

The prosecutor's office of the Primorsky Territory appealed in the Supreme Court an acquittal of the Primorsky Partisan case, said Elena Telegina, senior assistant to the prosecutor of the region. "The appeal was brought to the acquittal of the Chrysud. In the future, the case will be considered by the Supreme Court," she said. According to Telegin, the prosecutor's office asks to send the case for a new consideration from the initial stage of the trial.

On July 20, at the repeated process in the case of Primorsky partisans, the jury recognized the defendants innocent in the attack and murder of four drug dealers in the Kirovsky district of Primoryas. The jury considered the crime event unproven.

After some time, Nikitin and Kovtun left the court building. The liberated said that the verdict was a great surprise for them, and the first thing they are going to see their relatives. “I had a life sentence, now I just can’t express feelings,” Nikitin admitted. Kovtun at the court met a wife and daughter.

Three more defendants in this case remained in custody, since they have to serve his sentence on other episodes for which they were previously convicted, lawyers explained.

Meanwhile, the regional prosecutor’s office promised to appeal the verdict, which would be issued on the basis of the acquittal of the verdict, to the Supreme Court.

In the debate of the parties and performances with the last word, all the defendants refused to admit sane guilt. The lawyers of the political zones also indicated the insolvency of the prosecution. They noted that the case is based solely on the confession received from the defendants in the investigation, even before the first process in the case. Meanwhile, the defendants have repeatedly stated that these testimonies were given under torture.

In May 2015, the Supreme Court completely abolished the sentences to Vadim Kovtun, who received 8 years of 2 months of a strict regime, and Nikitin, sentenced to a life sentence in a special regime colony. In addition, from the sentences of three more defendants - Alexander Kovtun (younger brother Vadim), Vladimir Ilyutikov and Maxim Kirillov - an episode of the murder of drug addicts committed in the vicinity of the Kirovsky PGT in September 2009 was excluded. The same definition of Kovtun Jr. and Ilyutikov instead of life terms, respectively, was appointed 25 and 24 years of strict regime, and Kirillov reduced the term from 22 to 19 years of strict regime.

Thus, by force, only one person involved in the case entered into a verdict - Roman Savchenko - to whom the episode of the murder of drug dealers did not charged. Politzeka reduced the term from 25 to 24 years of strict regime. Since September 2015, Savchenko, who has no diseases and bad habits, has been contained in LIU -1 in Barnaul - the FSINA hospital for alcoholics, drug addicts and convicted with tuberculosis and AIDS.

Meanwhile, Kovtun Sr. and Nikitin were initially not mentioned among the partisans at all. They were arrested only a few weeks after the defeat of the group.

The repeated process began on March 10 . The jury was formed only on the ninth attempt.

On July 12, artist Pyotr Pavlensky announced a fundraiser for legal and other assistance to Primorsky partisans. He set the task of collecting 876 thousand rubles. In May, the international organization Human Rights Foundation awarded Pavlensky, at that time contained in the pre -trial detention center. Vaclav Gavel, the monetary part of which is 116.5 thousand Norwegian crowns, or 876 thousand rubles. Upon learning of the award, Pavlensky immediately announced his intention to transfer this amount to the coastal partisans. After that, Human Rights Foundation deprived him of a bonus. Accounts for helping partisans are published on the campaign website.