Journalists attacked in Beslan

In Beslan, journalists Elena Kostyuchenko (Novaya Gazeta) and Diana Khachatryan (Takie Dela) were attacked. about this on Facebook . writes Elena Milashina, a journalist for Novaya Gazeta,

According to her, the first attack took place in the building of school No. 1, the same one that was seized by terrorists in 2004. Before that, one of the mothers of Beslan, Ella Kesaeva, suffered from the attackers (her daughter was among the hostages during the seizure of the school).

A large number of people in civilian clothes, many of whom were young Ossetians in Antiterror T-shirts, began to surround the mothers from the Voice of Beslan in the gym. They were filmed by Ella Kesaeva. They grabbed the camera from her hands and tore Ella's dress. At that moment, Kostyuchenko took out her phone and began to film what was happening. They also snatched her phone from her, twisted her hands and dragged her through the entire gym and the yard of the First High behind the metal frames. They dragged them further, but the people in civilian clothes were stopped by the police

, - Milashina writes from the words of Elena Kostyuchenko herself.

The police told Kostyuchenko that they knew who attacked her and promised to give her the phone. At this time, a man in an Antiterror T-shirt approached the journalist and doused her with green paint. According to Milashina, “the police made no attempt to detain him. When Diana Khachatryan tried to take pictures of Lena and traces of brilliant green on her clothes and face, another young man in an Anti-Terror T-shirt hit Diana on the head, took the phone away and slowly left. The police did not make any attempt to detain the person and prevent hooligan actions.”

At the moment, they are trying to take away explanations from Lena Kostyuchenko, but the police do not introduce themselves and hide the tokens. In response to my attempt to talk to them (I introduced myself - I spoke on the phone to Ella Kesaeva, who handed her phone to Lena so that she could contact the editorial office) - the policeman who was conducting official actions with Kostyuchenko swore and hung up.

Also, after the attack, Lena Kostyuchenko and the mothers of Golos Beslan were approached by the head of the Mothers of Beslan Committee, Susanna Dudieva, and said: “You (addressing the mothers from Golos) can return to the First School sports hall. And you (addressing Kostyuchenko) - sit here. Always, when Novaya Gazeta comes here, something happens. I don't want to see you here anymore. The phone will be given to you after the study (apparently the contents and footage on the phone) ”

, - completes the retelling of Milashin's events.

Kostyuchenko, Khachatryan and Kesaeva were among those detained during a memorial service in Beslan. The detention took place after five women, including Kesaeva, took off their outerwear and found themselves in T-shirts with slogans accusing Putin of killing people in Beslan. The journalists were later released, and the Beslan mothers were tried on administrative charges . In particular, Kesaeva was sentenced to 20 hours of compulsory labor because she could not pay the fine.

UPD: According to the latest information reported by Elena Milashina, the police did not allow Kostyuchenko to photograph the explanation given to her and tried to detain Kostyuchenko and Khachatryan. However, the journalists managed, as they put it, to “break away” from the police, writes . their colleague

UPD: As . Elena Milashina writes on Facebook, Elena Kostyuchenko and Diana Khachatryan were not allowed to go to the Beslan cemetery "City of Angels", where those who died as a result of the terrorist attack at school No. 1 in September 2004 are buried

Lena and I walked to the cemetery together. A man in civilian clothes, with a hat on his head, approached us. As we were told later, this is the caretaker of the cemetery, his child was killed in a terrorist attack. He came up to us and told us to "get out of here." He took us by the scruff of the neck, dragged us along the floor, then stopped, started beating Lena, hit her in the face. He decided that we were to blame for everything, and organized a rally on September 1. There were policemen about seven meters away. They did nothing

- said Diana Khachatryan.