Prosecution witnesses in the case of Sasha Skochilenko refused to confirm their testimony in court

During the session of the Vasileostrovskiy District Court of St. Petersburg, witnesses for the prosecution in the case of Sasha Skochilenko retracted their testimony. about it Writes "Mediazona".

The judge extended Skochilenko's detention in the pre-trial detention center until July 10, 2023. The activist is accused in the case of "fake" about the Russian army due to the replacement of price tags in the store with anti-war leaflets.

During the court session witnesses for the prosecution Aleksey Nikolaev and military Stanislav Ozhenkov were called. They refused to repeat the phrases that were indicated in the interrogation protocols.

“I think that Alexandra Skochilenko did these actions because she thus condemns the political actions of the Russian Federation, is at enmity with the state in this way,” Nikolaev was recorded during interrogation.

During the meeting, he stated that “maybe he was worried or the investigator wrote it down wrong”:

- I saw them (price tags - ed. note) in the news about Kazan activists. I didn’t see Sasha, they asked me if I saw them at all.

- That is, the fact that you saw Skochilenko's price tags is not true?

- No, it doesn't match.

Are you saying that the price tags contain deliberately false information?

- I was excited, I could not know about deliberately false information.

Nikolaev also said that he did not remember how he signed the protocol of interrogation. According to him, he was excited, as he "tried to open the door, arrested a childhood friend."

Military Ozhenkov also retracted his testimony:

— Do you know anything about the placement of pseudo price tags?

“I have no idea what you're talking about.

- Awesome.

Due to discrepancies in testimonies during interrogation in the Investigative Committee and in court, the protocol of Ozhenkov's interrogation was read out.

Last spring, Skochilenko became the first defendant under the article on the spread of "fake" about the Russian Armed Forces - she was arrested for replacing the price tags in the Perekrestok store with theses about the actions of the Russian army on the territory of Ukraine.

charged in September She was . In the pre-trial detention center, Skochilenko's health condition worsened due to the lack of gluten-free food, which the girl needs in connection with a confirmed diagnosis of celiac disease (genetic gluten intolerance).

In early December last year, the BBC included Sasha Skochilenko in the list of the 100 most influential and inspiring women in the world in 2022.