The Central District Court of Omsk arrested citizen of Belarus Sergei Eremeev until January 30, 2024; he is accused of blowing up two trains on the Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM) in Buryatia. this A TASS correspondent reports from the courtroom.
The explosion occurred in the Severomuisky tunnel on November 29 on the stretch between Itykit and Okushikan stations. Initially, the Investigative Committee opened a case under an article on violation of traffic safety rules and operation of railway transport (Part 1 of Article 263), but then it was reclassified as an article on a terrorist attack (Part 1 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code).
Eremeev was detained on December 7. “I wrote in the explanation that ammunition is now being transported through BAM […]. The main goal was to impede traffic,” the accused explained at the trial.
According to unconfirmed reports , shells for the Russian army are being transported through the Severomuysky tunnel from the DPRK.
On December 11, the Belarusian special services conducted searches of several acquaintances of Sergei Eremeev, suspected of bombing trains in Buryatia, and confiscated their phones and equipment. this . reports Baza
On December 14, Sergei Eremeev is in pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Irkutsk. This was reported by the Solidarity Zone.
You can support a man by writing him a letter through the services “F-Letter” , “Zonatelecom” , as well as “PrisonMail” (for foreign cards):
664 019, Irkutsk, st. Barricade 63, pre-trial detention center-1
Eremeev Sergey Viktorovich, 09/02/1971
On December 18, Sergei Eremeev was transferred to a pre-trial detention center in Ulan-Ude. This was reported by the Solidarity Zone. The administration of Pre-trial Detention Center No. 1 of Irkutsk told a volunteer who was going to hand him over that the person involved in the case had gone there on December 13.
You can support Eremeev by sending him a letter through the Zonatelecom service or by regular mail to the address:
670 000, Republic of Buryatia, city Ulan-Ude, ul. Pristanskaya, 4, SIZO-1,
Eremeev Sergey Viktorovich born 09/02/1971
- Before the start of a full-scale war with Ukraine, people in Russia were rarely tried under the article on sabotage (Article 281 of the Criminal Code) - over the past ten years, courts have handed down several sentences a year, found out Mediazona . Since the fall of 2022, security forces began to regularly initiate criminal cases under this article: the publication’s journalists studied known materials and found that almost three-quarters of them refer to damage to relay cabinets on railways. In addition, at the end of 2022, the punishment for sabotage was tightened: articles were introduced three new into the Criminal Code , one of which carries life imprisonment.
- As a rule, the details of criminal cases of sabotage are almost unknown - information about them is mainly disseminated by security forces. In addition to the article on sabotage, some defendants are also charged with an article on a terrorist attack (Article 205 of the Criminal Code) or its preparation. From the available data we can conclude that the initiation of cases under these articles is not always justified: not all cases carry serious consequences for the operation of the railway, and some are completely insignificant. In many cases, the accused said that they damaged relay cabinets and other equipment on the roads for little money . Moreover, in some cases it can be argued that arson was a way to oppose a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.