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Suspect of Armenian Youth Murder Released

29.04.2006 00:35 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Denis Kulagin, the pupil of one of the Moscow
schools, suspected of killing of an Armenian citizen, was
released. According to a source in the law enforcement bodies, the
schoolboy was released after the expiration of the 72-hour detainment
term authorized earlier by the court. `According to the law, he had
to be either articled or the detainment term had to be
prolonged. Since the accusation was not produced, the boy was
released,’ the source said. At that the11-former remains one of the
central suspects. Presently all the possible versions of the incident
are being investigated, the murder through national hatred included.

Meanwhile, several Russian newspapers say the suspect, Denis Kulagin,
17, has not committed the crime. In the words of the schoolboy’s
mother, she made him confess in the murder herself owing to threats of
the inspectors. Besides, the instrument of the crime is not found –
the knife, while the observation cameras did not shoot anything and
the inspectors have only the confession of the minor, who was
illegally interrogated for several hours without his mother’s or a
lawyer’s presence. Besides, the fact that two other teenagers were
wounded arouses doubts. They wounds were not serious but in the
opinion of the Armenian family’s lawyer, this fully refutes the
version of one single murderer.

To remind, April 22, 2006 near the Pushkinskaya subway station a fight
took place. As result, a student of one of the Moscow institutes,
Armenian by origin Vahan Abramyants was wounded with a knife and died.
Immediately after this the fight participants escaped. A criminal
case was initiated according to Article 105 (murder) of the RF Penal
Code.