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In Makhachkala, they set fire to the Volga car of the Dagestan representative office of the Human Rights Center "Memorial" reported by the chairman of the Council of PC Alexander Cherkasov.

On the evening of Monday, the driver of the Memorial parked the car at his house. Okololo for 22 hours a neighbor called him and said that the car was on fire. The driver with the help of neighbors began to extinguish the flame. With the help of firefighters who promptly arrived at the scene, the fire was quickly extinguished. Only the front of the car suffered - the paint on the hood was burned, the wheel and rubber seals burned. A container with an incendiary mixture was found next to the car. The crime was examined by the district police officer, the interrogator began to work.

Later, on Tuesday, the SMS message came to the mobile phone of the Memorial’s Dagestan Representative Office: “You go along the edge of the abyss. Close! Next time, we’ll set fire to your office. Signal” (Spelling saved. - Ed.).

“This is quite obvious, the next act of intimidation,” said Oleg Orlov, the head of the program “hot spots”. “In relation to the Memorial, intimidation, intimidation, that is, terror, has set fire to the car, perhaps some local punks. But it is obvious to any unbiased person that the employers of these arsonists, organizers of the crime should be sought in the Chechen Republic.”

According to Orlov, on January 20, a Dagestan lawyer drove to the Chechen village of Kurchal on this car. The lawyer participated in the investigative actions in the case of the chairman of the Chechen unit of the organization of Oyub Titiev , against which the case of drug storage was fabricated (part 2 of Article 228 of the Criminal Code).

Orlov called the incident in Makhachkala the “link of one chain” with a fabric of the office of the “Memorial” in Nazran and the toss of suspicious objects during a search in the Chechen representative office of the organization .

Soon after Titiev’s arrest in messengers and social networks , a video message made on behalf of the Islamic State was widespread to kill human rights defenders . The detention of Titiev, noted by the unknown on the video, entailed pressure on Russia from the international community, in particular the United States, and therefore at the hand of Islamists. In this regard, he urged like -minded people to kill famous human rights defenders, explaining that public opinion would attribute these crimes to Vladimir Putin and Ramzan Kadyrov. Such a reaction, he concluded, will allow you to rock the situation in the country to the March presidential election. The human rights community was called probable that in fact, the appeal is a provocation of security forces.