"One on one with his trouble"

In the Moscow District Military Court, the consideration of the case of Hassan Zakayev, the alleged accomplice of the terrorist attack in the theater center on Dubrovka in Moscow, is completed. This is the only trial associated with the Nord-Ost case, which was allowed to participate in the victims-former hostages and relatives of the dead. For almost 15 years they achieve justice and demand that everyone who came to the deaths of people who came on October 23, 2002 at the Nord-Ost musical.

The judicial investigation in the “case of the Nord-Ost” almost ended. The debt of the parties will begin from day to day, and the victims, who were first given the opportunity to participate in the open trial, did not receive answers to very important questions for them: about the causes and circumstances of the death of each who died in the theater center. About the substance that was used during the exemption of hostages. On the personal composition of the headquarters. operation and specific decisions that were made by specific people.

The investigation was not complete, comprehensive, objective, and it is not effective at all!

Hassan Zakaev, whose case is now considering the Moscow District Military Court, has been on the international wanted list for a long time. He was detained in 2014 while trying to enter Crimea from the territory of Ukraine on fake documents. The accusation calls Zakayev an accomplice of terrorists. According to investigators, he, as a member of the criminal community led by Shamil Basayev, organized the delivery of weapons and home -made explosive devices to Moscow, which were used by terrorists to capture the theater center on Dubrovka. Zakaev himself claims that he was not in Basayev’s gang, he did not know about the terrorist attack in Moscow, and brought weapons and ammunition to Moscow on behalf of his fellow countrymen, but thought that it was intended for sale.

In December 2015, the court refused to consider this case and returned it to the prosecutor to eliminate the violations. The new edition, according to the victims, did not save the situation. They are convinced: to consider this fact in the form in which it came to the court, and even more so to pass the sentence and declare the failed justice. "The investigation was not complete, comprehensive, objective, and it is not at all effective!" - says lawyer Karinna Moskalenko , representing the interests of former hostages and their relatives. According to her, the investigation is obliged to find out how, when and where exactly people died: in the theater center, in the hospital, after the provision of medical care or in the absence of even the first urgent assistance.

Karinna Moskalenko

“These circumstances are important for determining, among other things, also responsible persons,” explains Karinna Moskalenko, “one of our principal believes that his daughter died in a refrigerator. He thinks so because no one showed him a document confirming the establishment of the fact of death before she was in the morgue. Another guide says that several insensitive bodies and girls were simply dumped and girl. Crowned out.

Until now, the substance that has been used during a special operation to release hostages has not been officially named. To find out what it was, the victims tried both in the framework of the investigation of the criminal case, and during the trial in the European Court of Human Rights. Unsuccessfully.

“The ECHR, since this is not included in his competence, did not go into the details of the validity of gas in the course of a special operation,” says lawyer Maria Kurakin, representing the interests of the victims, “and it is clear that in some cases the state can apply gas, but people have the right to know that we are applied to them, because otherwise we get a situation when the hostages are left one on one with our own with their own trouble ".

To this day, the only official paper, which at least somehow explains the composition of the gas that was used on Dubrovka is the FSB response to the request of the former hostage Svetlana Gubareva. It says about the "Fentanil -based substance."

All victims in the "case of Nord-Ost" in medical documents noted the diagnosis: "Victim of terrorism"

“Fentanil -based substances can be an unlimited amount! And we need a recipe for a particular substance,” says Karinna Moskalenko. This, according to her, is important not only to understand what the hostages could die from. This is necessary for those who survived.

Lawyer Igor Zuber draws attention to the fact that all the victims of Nord-Ost’s “case” in medical documents noted the diagnosis: “Victim of terrorism.” “What kind of diagnosis is such, no sensible medicine can explain. That is, it is quite obvious that throughout all these years, people who have survived hostages are treated not clear from what and it is not clear how, ”says Zubert.

The lawyers of the victims hoped that the court would help them find out which gas was used on Dubrovka and filed an appropriate petition: “No one has the right to refuse the Russian court that made an official request to provide information, they can be classified if I have a need,” Karinna Moskalenko emphasizes. “If everything is safe, if this is safe, if it is permitted to use, Not forbidden, the authorities should answer.

The court was also refused to petition the victims to conduct a comprehensive forensic medical examination, which, according to lawyers, should have been appointed to determine the degree of harm to the health of surviving hostages. The court also did not interrogate the experts declared by victims - members of the headquarters for the release of hostages.

Memory of Memory of Victims "Nord-Ost", 2013

On October 23, 2002, during the Nord-Ost musical, terrorists penetrated the building of the Moscow Theater Center on Dubrovka and held more than 900 hostages for three days. In the early morning of October 26, the authorities organized a storm with the use of gas, the composition of which is classified. All terrorists were destroyed, and the rescue operation turned into the death of 125 hostages.

In December 2011, the European Court of Human Rights, having examined the collective complaint of the victims as a result of the Dubrovka terrorist attack, admitted that the Russian authorities violated the right of applicants to life. In addition to the appointment of monetary compensations, Strasbourg ordered Russia to objectively investigate the circumstances of the operation to release hostages during which people were killed. However, the Russian Investigative Committee refused to institute criminal proceedings against officials responsible for conducting a special operation. The Russian authorities are still an operation to liberate the hostages of the Theater Center on Dubrovka successful and deny their guilt in the deaths of people.