"This is a trick of the investigation"

Elena Milashina - about the suspension of the investigation of the case of an attack on her in Grozny

- The Chechen investigators have a rigid attitude: to prevent the victims - us - to the materials of the criminal case. Formally, this is legal. In fact - for years they delay the investigation.

It is clear why: investigators do not want to investigate this matter, I called the consequence of specific surnames, the names of the famous people in Chechnya, who ... well, will not be prosecuted.

According to another attack on me, which happened five years ago, the investigator behaved in the same way: he suspended the investigation, and then resumed - pulled. We appealed this in five years in the courts of ten times, there were court hearings.

And at one of the meetings, the investigator of the Chechen SK Taramov directly said that he would not let us get acquainted with the case materials for the simple reason that I will write about him a “bad article” ...