CASE OF MURDER COMMITTED BY NATIONALISTS GOES TO TRIAL
ITAR-TASS, Russia
May 17 2006
MOSCOW, May 17 (Itar-Tass) – The Moscow regional transport prosecutor’s
office has turned over the case of murder of an Armenian to the Moscow
regional court.
The Armenian, Samvel Tadevosyan, was killed in an electric train in
the region in August last year.
Seven young people, including three underage persons, students of
institutions of higher learning and special schools, are charged with
the crime, a source at the prosecutor’s office told Itar-Tass.
The defendants have radical nationalist views, as the investigation
has established.
According to the investigation, the group on August 9, 2005 planned
an attack on persons of non-Slav appearance and decided to make a
videotape of the attack to sell the recording later.
They changed trains for two hours on the night to August 10 and went
through train cars to find people of Caucasian or Asian appearance,
until they saw the Armenian in a train between Odintshovo and
Bakovka. They seized his mobile telephone, money and documents and
struck the man on his head and neck with a piece of a broken glass
bottle. The man died at the site.
The group is also charged with attacking other two people in trains
the same night, including a police officer, whose money, documents
and valuable things were seized.