MOSCOW PROSECUTORS RE-QUALIFY CRIMINAL CASE INTO ETHNIC ASSAULT
ITAR-TASS, Russia
July 3 2006
MOSCOW, July 3 (Itar-Tass) – The Moscow prosecutor’s office has
demanded the re-qualification of a criminal case on an attack on a
group of people that took place in the Moscow underground on Saturday.
The prosecutor’s office spokesman Sergei Marchenko told that
investigators had ascertained that about 15 unknown persons assaulted
four Armenians and one Azerbaijani at the underground station Kuznetsky
Most at about 17:00 Moscow time.
Two Armenians and the Azerbaijani suffered knife wounds and two more
of the attacked other bodily harm.
The Moscow prosecutor’s office ordered to the prosecutor’s office of
the Moscow Metropolitan to re-qualify the earlier opened criminal case
from hooliganism to "instigation of hatred or enmity, humiliation of
human dignity of a person or a group of persons on the basis of sex,
race, nationality, language, origin, or religion committed publicly".
Two Armenian constructers aged 20 and 23 sought medical care for cut
wounds on Saturday, saying that they were injured in a conflict with
a group of 17-18-year-old people.