The secret witness in the “Penza case” at the meeting repeated the interrogation protocols verbatim and was unable to answer additional questions

In Penza, in the Volga District Military Court, a secret witness under the pseudonym Vladimir Ilyich Kabanov was interrogated. He repeated the interrogation protocols verbatim and was unable to answer additional questions from the defense and prosecution, writes . Novaya Gazeta

According to the publication, Penza State University student Vlad Gresko is hiding under this pseudonym; in Penza he is also known as Vlad Dobrovolsky.

Having repeated the testimony from the interrogation report, the newspaper writes, the witness could not remember how he got to St. Petersburg, when he had a train and which station he arrived at. In addition, he was unable to clearly communicate his political views.

“I don’t have any political views now. He held right-wing views. A definite view of economics and politics. Uh... supported socialism,” said the witness.

Now the court in Penza is considering the case of seven defendants in the case of the “terrorist community “Network””. None of the defendants in the case admit guilt. The accused Ilya Shakursky and Dmitry Pchelintsev told at the hearings how they were tortured.

"Penza case"

The criminal case against the “terrorist community “Network”” was opened by the FSB in October 2017. Most of the defendants in the case are anti-fascists and anarchists; Many detainees are also united by their passion for airsoft.

Relatives of the Penza defendants in the case said that during their arrest they were planted with weapons and then tortured. , who was detained in St. Petersburg , spoke in detail about torture Dmitry Pchelintsev and Ilya Shakursky , as well as Viktor Filinkov . In September, Arman Sagynbaev said that he confessed under torture. , who was released as a witness, also reported about the interrogation with the use of a stun gun Ilya Kapustin - fearing for his safety, he, like Filinkov’s wife Alexandra , went to Finland, where he asked for political asylum.

Pchelintsev and Shakursky claimed that FSB officers tortured them with electric shocks in the basement of the Penza pre-trial detention center. Shishkin did not report torture, but doctors diagnosed him with a fracture of the lower wall of the orbit, numerous hematomas and abrasions, and members of the Public Monitoring Committee who visited Shishkin in the pre-trial detention center recorded numerous marks on his body similar to burns from electrical wires. In addition, the accused Yuliy Boyarshinov spent several months in the “press huts” of pre-trial detention center No. 6 in the Leningrad region. There he was beaten several times.

The Investigative Committee refused to initiate criminal cases of torture of Filinkov and Kapustin - the investigator decided that Filinkov was legally beaten by FSB officers with a stun gun , and the marks on Kapustin’s body were not from the stun gun, but from bedbug bites .

The charge of participation in a terrorist community (Part 2 of Article 205.4 of the Criminal Code) carries from five to 10 years of imprisonment, and for creating a terrorist community (Part 1 of Article 205.4 of the Criminal Code) one faces from 15 to 20 years in prison.