"Forgive me for this accusation"

Nemtsov’s killers announced the verdict. Sensations did not happen

After ten months of court hearings (with a break for the New Year and to the court of Navalny in Kirov) and three days of discussion on June 29, the jury issued the indictment of all five defendants - the alleged Killer, the former officer of the battalion Zaur Dadaev and his accomplices - the brothers Anzor and Shadida Gubashev, Temirlan Eskerkhanov and Temirlan Eskerkhanov and Hamzatu Bakhaev. According to the investigation that the jury supported, all of them, as part of an organized group, participated in the preparation of the murder, collected information and helped to hide Dadaev, who on February 27, 2015 at 23.31 fired six shots in Boris Nemtsov, five bullets to the body, one by.

An organized group is an important accent of charges. If it is considered proved by the fact of actions in an organized group, according to the law, all members of the group are guilty of all crimes committed by the group, regardless of the personal role of everyone. Apparently, the prosecution was more convincing - with a minimum number of votes against, all the defendants were found guilty and not deserving. After that, the verdict is a technical detail.

The day before, on Wednesday, the prosecution requested the deadlines for the defendants. Dadaev - a life imprisonment in a special regime colony and a fine of 200 thousand rubles, as well as the deprivation of the military rank of lieutenant and the award of the Order of Courage. Anzor Gubashev - 23 years of strict regime and a fine, Shadida Gubashev - 21 years of strict regime and a fine, Temirlan Eskerkhanov - 19 years of strict regime, imprisonment of the warrant officer and a fine, Hamzata Bakhaev - 17 years of strict mode and a fine.

And although the defendants knew that the sane articles - the murder and illegal turnover of the weapon - are difficult and especially grave and the punishment according to the letter of the law would be strict, the voiced deadlines were discouraged. Protection lawyers asked the judge to pronounce an acquittal, despite the accusatory verdict. Theoretically, by law, the judge may not agree with the verdict of the jury and send the case to consideration again. But in practice, they could not remember such cases.

For some reason, the defendants themselves recalled Allah and talked about their innocence. Religious disagreements appeared as the motive for the murder of Boris Nemtsov, but there was no evidence of this. Caricatures and Charlie Ebdo were later than the surveillance began. Perhaps sudden religiosity was explained by the presence of television cameras in the hall, which were allowed to shoot the entire meeting.

“I will ask Allah patience, he endured and ordered us,” said Dadaev in the last word. - I do not bow my head before anyone, nor before the prosecutor’s office, or to Krasnov, or to Tevich (investigators on the case) .. ”

“I want to apologize to my mother and brother: forgive me for this accusation. I will be clean and will come out anyway, or forward myself. For all the will of God, I do not hold evil! And with such prosecutors and traces, the country goes down! ”

“I trust in Allah,” said Anzor Gubashev. - You do not observe the law that you yourself came up with, I feel sorry for you, may Allah forgive you. The accomplices of the crime are sitting here - these are a judge and prosecutors, not us. ”

Shadid Gubashev: “How could a gentle girl request such a deadline? The Almighty, I hope, will forgive you for your actions. Allahu Akbar! ”

“Cruel and wild,” said Temirlan Eskerkhanov in the last word. “Patience to my mother, brother, and so that everything is fine with the children.”

“Thanks to everyone who supported me! Good, peace, prosperity! " - Khamzat Bakhaev said briefly.

Both in the process and in the debate, the party of the victims stated that she considers the evidence of the guilt of Hamzat Bakhaev insufficient - and repeated it again.

The judge of the Zhitnikov took only a day to write a decision. And he was more humane than the prosecution.

And sentenced. Dadaeva by 20 years in a maximum security colony, a fine of 100 thousand rubles and deprivation of the title and order.

Anzor Gubashev - by 19 years of strict regime, Shadid Gubashev - by 16 years old, Temirlan Exerkhanov - by 14, Khamzat Bakhaev - by 11 years in a maximum security colony. They also sentenced everyone to a fine of one hundred thousand rubles and restriction of freedom for a period of two years.

The defendant is incomprehensible. “I don’t understand why I got such a period,” said Shadid Gubashev. Eskerkhanov wrote “Lod” on the foggy glass of the aquarium.

It was a difficult process. The impudent murder opposite the Kremlin required a quick reaction of investigators. Everything was in order with the reaction - the suspects were detained in a week. True, then it turned out that the problem was rested on an insoluble obstacle from the Chechen authorities, and the direct commander of Dadaev Ruslan Geremeyev, in whose apartment the accused lived and who flew away with Dadaev to Grozny immediately after the murder, could not even interrogate the door, he said in court, and no one was looking for him anymore. The alleged organizer - the driver of Geremeyev - on the wanted list. But we understand.

There is no moment in the murder in the video - the review of the weather camera was closed by the snowman. Video from other cameras near the Kremlin failed - state secret, negligence or intent? How did another accomplice of Beslan Shavanov died? And why did they “excuse” Geremeyev and not “excited” Dadaev? A raw, unfinished case was transferred to court. The prosecutor Semenenko did everything possible with what was handed over to her - as always. But the questions remained questions.

I really want to say that sooner or later we will recognize the name of the customer, the vile murder will be disclosed and all the perpetrators will be in the bench of the defendants. But for now, it seems, another weighty volume has been added on a shelf with unfinished business.