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| It took two days for the investigation committee to open a case on the attack on Milashina and Nemov |
| 2023-07-06 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. More on this story from yesterday [KavkazUzel] The attack on lawyer Alexander Nemov and journalist Yelena Milashina is being investigated under articles on causing harm to health of medium and light severity, the Russian Investigative Committee said on the second day after the attack. Milashina has a traumatic brain injury, numerous bruises and fractures of 14 bones, Novaya Gazeta informed on the results of a survey of a journalist in a Moscow clinic. The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on July 4, Novaya Gazeta journalist Yelena Milashina and Zarema Musayeva's lawyer Alexander Nemov were attacked in Chechnya. They were beaten by masked gunmen while driving from the airport to Grozny, where the verdict in the case of Zarema Musayeva was to be announced. Milashina said that there were at least 10 attackers, they demanded to unlock the phone and threatened to cut off their fingers. Nemov and Milashina were sent to Moscow for treatment, Nemov's colleagues said that the lawyer could not walk. Lawyers interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" noted that Chechen investigators are in no hurry to open a case on the attack, although its investigation does not guarantee that the perpetrators will be named. The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, half a day after the attack, promised to "sort things out," Chechen Ombudsman Mansur Soltayev called the attack a provocation, and the head of the Chechen Ministry of Press, Akhmed Dudayev, pointed out that the attack showed "the signature of Western intelligence services." The reaction of the authorities, human rights activists and lawyers to the incident is collected in the "Caucasian Knot" report " Attack on Milashina and Nemov in Chechnya ". The head of the investigative department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Chechen Republic, Vitaly Volkov, reported to the chairman of the Russian Investigative Committee on the initiation of a criminal case in connection with the attack on Milashina and Nemov. He noted that the case is being investigated under articles on deliberate infliction of moderate bodily harm (Part 2 of Article 112 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation provides for up to five years in prison) and light bodily harm (Part 2 of Article 115 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation provides for up to two years in prison). "The investigative group is carrying out a complex of investigative actions and operational-search measures aimed at identifying the persons involved in this crime and all the circumstances of the incident," the Russian Investigative Committee said in a message on the Telegram channel. Elena Milashina was examined after the attack in Chechnya, Novaya Gazeta reported today. "Diagnoses: closed craniocerebral injury, multiple fractures of the bones of the hands (up to 14), multiple bruises of soft tissues. Consciousness is clear, the condition is stable," the publication's website says. Novaya also published two photographs of Milashina with signs of a beating. Hematomas are visible on the head, in particular, on the back of the head, the entire back of the journalist is bruised. |
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