Not exceeding authority

Judge of the Krasnogvardeisky District Court of St. Petersburg Svetlana Karlova sentenced the 35-year-old senior operative of the city OP-26 Captain Andrei Artemyev by 1 year 9 months of the general regime for the murder of him in her official office of the local resident Dmitry Demidov. This was reported to the "Franes" by the lawyer of "Agora" Vitaly Cherkasov, representing the interests of the mother of the deceased.

Artemyev was accused under Part 1 of Article 105 (murder) and paragraphs "A", "B" Part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code (abuse of authority using violence and weapons). In the debate of the parties that passed on December 7, the prosecutor requested 12 years of strict regime for the defendant.

However, Karlova re-qualified the charges under the 105th article on part 1 of Article 109 (causing death by negligence), and under Article 286 fully acquitted Artemyev.

“We categorically disagree with such a sentence and after its study we will definitely appeal it,” Cherkasov assured.

Artemyev himself, in his testimony at the trial, stated that, taking a gun from the holster, he involuntarily twisted the shutter, after which a shot occurred. He also said that after the death of Demidov he did not touch anything in the office, but immediately went down to the duty unit and announced the incident.

“At the same time,” Cherkasov remarked, “he did not want to explain who changed the location of the murdered body, as well as objects in the office: cognac bottles, a pistol, holster store, why the gun was smeared with blood, who left the blood drops in the corridor and toilet. He referred to shock and confusion.”

Meanwhile, the lawyer continued, Artemyev knows how to handle service weapons, since he used to serve in the Airborne Forces in Chechnya, and after the device in the structure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was undergoing service and combat training.

Cherkasov also emphasized that Artemyev did not explain why he twisted the shutter of the pistol in a situation when a calm conversation was held between him and Demidov, during which he treated the latter with cognac. "

The lawyer added that in the debate he asked Karlov to make a private definition to the leadership of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate in St. Petersburg. Earlier, Cherkasov explained, the investigator made a warning about incomplete official compliance with the appearance of drunk in the service, and the psychologist warned Artemyev’s superiors that he was at risk as an alcoholic.

However, the judge did not issue such a definition.

37-year-old Demidov died on November 11, 2015 from a shot in a mouth from Makarov’s table pistol owned by Artemyev. The incident occurred when Demidov and Artemyev were alone in the police officer’s office. Initially, it was stated that the Petersburger grabbed the gun at the operative. However, later on the same day , Artemyev was detained on suspicion of murder . At the same time, the medical examination showed that the operative is drunk. The media noticed that the day before the professional holiday of the police was celebrated.

Demidov lived in the Krasnogvardeisky district of the city, in the territory subordinate to the OP-26. Since 1999, he has repeatedly been delayed for drunkenness and drug use. The deceased also had several criminal records for small thefts. So, in the early 2000s, he was accused of stealing trousers from the store, and in 2004-of theft of things from the car.

The OP-26 is also known as the brother of the deceased, also having a number of criminal records.

The police working in the department claimed that both brothers were hostile to Artemyev and could not be his informants. Meanwhile, the operative regularly brought Dmitry Demid to his office and subjected him to informal interrogations of crimes in the territory of the territory.

The consideration of the case in May of this year, the chairman of the Red Guard Court Elena Volkova. On June 16, a debate took place, to which the prosecutor also requested 12 years of strict regime for Artemyev. However, then the judge, at the request of the lawyer of the defendant, unexpectedly resumed the judicial investigation, appointing a second examination, and during her holding, Vladimir Putin appointed Volkov the deputy chairman of the Leningrad Regional Court. After that, the process had to start again.

At the same time, a number of conclusions of re -examination coincided with the conclusion of the previous one. Firstly, a new study, like the previous one, established that Demidov could not make a shot himself. This refuted the original version of Artemyev, according to which he left the gun on the table, and when he turned away, Demidov shot himself. In addition, it was confirmed that the body of the murdered was moved.

Finally, the third conclusion of a second examination denied the version that Artemyev expressed already at the trial - that when he took out a gun from a holster, the fuse caught on it and moved. As it turned out, all the details of the pistol were working and spontaneously the fuse could not change its position.