Staffers of the RCFS reported the threats aimed at them to the prosecutorshipOn 9 September 2005 at about 11 pm Stanislav Dmitrievsky and Oksana Chelysheva handed in their statement to the prosecutor’s office of Nizhny Novgorod region demanding to commence a criminal case and to begin investigation into the threats that they had received a few hours before that.
At about 7 pm the staffers of the RCFS again received leaflets containing murderous threats. The leaflets were glued to the walls of the section of the apartment building in which the executive manager of the RCFS Stanislav Dmitrievsky lives as well as to the door of his flat. Unlike the attempt to intimidate the staffers of the RCFS that took place five months ago, the leaflets aren’t signed by the never-existing “Patriotic front of A.P. Ivanov”. The leaflets are signed with the names of activists of the National Bolshevik Party and contain their telephone numbers. However, national Bolsheviks have not been involved into distribution of the leaflets. People who are behind the leaflets have organized deliberate provocation. Dmitrievsky and Chelysheva have stated it in their statement.
The applicants have also demanded to combine this case into one with the criminal case commenced by the prosecutorship after similar leaflets had been distributed in the neighborhood where Oksana Chelysheva lives on 14 March, 2005. The case is being investigated by the prosecutor’s office of Nizhny Novgorod Kanavinsky district.
The text of their statement follows:
To the prosecutorship of Nizhny Novgorod region
From Dmitrievsky Stanislav Mikhaylovich,
Registered at the address Nizhny Novgorod,
97 Belinsky St., ap.16
The address of the residence
Nizhny Novgorod
5 Zalomov St., ap. 24.
From Chelysheva Oksana Anatolyevna,
Living at the address
Nizhny Novgorod 14 Iyulskikh Dney St., ap.23.
STATEMENT OF A CRIME
We state hereby that today, on 9 September 2005, there appeared not less that ten leaflets containing death threats and slander aimed at Stanislav Dmitrievsky and Oksana Chelysheva (the original is attached) in the apartment building where Stanislav Dnmitirevsky lives at the address 5 Zalomov Street. Symbols of the National Bolshevik Party have been indicated in the leaflets. The leaflets were discovered and torn off the walls by Dmitirevsky’s neighbors. At about 7 pm they gave the leaflets to Dmitrievsky’s civil wife Artyomova Maria Mikhaylovna after she had returned home from work.
The threats in the leaflets are connected with the professional and public activities carried by Dmitirevsky and Chelysheva. Dmitirevsky and Chelysheva work for the inter-regional public organization “The Russian-Chechen Friendship Society” (the RCFS). Dmitirevsky works as the executive manager of the organization and the editor-in-chief of “Pravozaschita” newspaper and Chelysheva works as the editor of the Information Center at the RCFS.
At the bottom of the leaflets there goes the phrase “We are waiting for you. Ilya 8-920-295-86-05 Mikhail 32-51-66” after the threat “Death to them!”
After we had dialed one of the indicated telephone numbers, we found out that the telephone numbers belonged to the leader of Nizhny Novgorod branch of the NBP Ilya Shamazov and his deputy. They stated that they didn’t know anything about the leaflets signed with their names.
The applicants are inclined to believe their statements and we don’t suspect people representing the NBP of distributing the leaflets. We assume that it is the deliberate provocation organized with the aim to set the investigation into the threats against the RCFS leaders at the wrong track, to provoke a conflict between the two public associations and to commence criminal prosecution against the leaders of Nizhny Novgorod branch of the NBP.
We state that on 14 March, 2005, leaflets with similar threats and printed on similar paper were distributed in the apartment building where Oksana Chelysheva lives situated at the address 14 Iyulskikh Dney Street and the neighborhood. Those leaflets were signed with the never-existing “Patriotic Front of A.P. Ivanov”. On 30 March, 2005, the prosecutorship of Nizhny Novgorod Region commenced the criminal case on the crime that Articles 129 and 130 of the criminal Code of the Russian federation refer to. The investigation is being carried by the prosecutor’s office of Kanavincky district of Nizhny Novgorod. The investigator is Alexander Kuflin. Oksana Chelysheva has been recognized as a complainant.
We have to point to the fact that leaflets containing threats appeared after the Nizhny Novgorod branch of the Federal Security Service (the FSB) had started to investigate criminal case #292 commenced by your prosecutorship regarding the fact of publication of the statements made by Aslan Maskhadov and Akhmed Zakaev in “Pravozaschita” newspaper and after all the staffers of the RCFS had been interrogated at the FSB. The FSB service personnel had all the particulars and all the staffers’ addresses including of their temporary residence. We stated that we suspected people connected with the investigation of criminal case #292 that is the FSB service personnel both in our statement that was handed in to the prosecutorship on March 15 this year and while we questioned by investigator A.S. Kuflin. As of the present moment, criminal case #292 is being investigated by the prosecutorship of Nizhny Novgorod region (the investigator is Oleg Kirukov). On 2 September 2005 Dmitrievsky was officially charged with committing a crime described in Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian federation. As of the present moment, we are also inclined to consider that people connected to criminal case #292 have been involved into the threats aimed at us.
We consider the threats aimed at us as very serious. We think that the new attempt to intimidate us is connected with the pressure imposed upon the RCFS by different state agencies and law-enforcement bodies of Nizhny Novgorod region and the slanderous campaign initiated by their order (politically motivated criminal case #292, unlawful and ungrounded tax claims made by the tax inspection of Nizhny Novgorod, a suit lodged by the Registration Service of the Justice Ministry of the Russian Federation aimed at closing the organization down, slander campaign in local mass media outlets, etc.). We assume that people who are connected with these actions or who coordinate them are behind the leaflets that were distributed today.
According to the above-stated, we are requesting:
- according to the procedure described in Article 146 of the Procedural Criminal Code, to commence the criminal case with reference to Articles 119, 129 and 130 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation concerning the fact of distributing the leaflets threatening Dmitrievsky and Chelysheva with murder;
- according to the procedure described in Part 2 of Article 153 of the Procedural Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, to join the criminal case into the threats aimed at Chelysheva Oksana (the case is being investigated by the investigator A.S. Kuflin at the prosecutorship of Nizhny Novgorod Kanavinsky district) and the criminal case that will be commenced now into the one criminal case and to investigate it by the prosecutorship of Nizhny Novgorod Region.
(The text was not edited by Prague Watchdog).
Source: Russian-Chechen Information Agency (B) |
