Ekho Moskvy radio, Moscow, in Russian
13 Sep 06
MOSCOW PROSECUTORS CONFIRM POLICE CADET’S ARREST OVER ARMENIAN
YOUTH’S MURDER
[Presenter] The Moscow prosecutor’s office announced today that it
has solved a high-profile murder committed on the Moscow underground
in April. An Armenian youth, 17-year-old Vigen Abramyants was killed
at the Pushkinskaya underground station. It was announced today that
a certain Nikita Senyukov has been detained on suspicion of
committing this murder. The news can be regarded as quite sensational
because the supposed murderer was a police college cadet. The
detention was confirmed to us by Svetlana Petrenko, aide to the
Moscow prosecutor,.
[Petrenko] Nikita Senyukov, born in 1988, a fourth-year student at
College No 1 of the Moscow Main Directorate of Internal Affairs, has
been detained on suspicion of committing the murder of Vigen
Abramyants in April this year at the Pushkinskaya underground station
in Moscow. The criminal case was instituted by the Moscow Underground
Prosecutor’s Office under Article 105 Part 2 Clauses "zh" and "l" of
the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation: murder by a group of
people committed for reasons of ethnic hatred. Moscow’s
Cheremushkinskiy Court ruled yesterday that the measure of restraint
applicable to the suspect is arrest. The underground prosecutor’s
office intends to bring charges against Senyukov shortly.
[Correspondent] Moreover, some reports suggest that Nikita Senyukov
is a second-generation policeman. His father was also a policeman –
not rank-and-file but a very senior one, they say. However, our radio
was told at police college No 1 that Nikita Senyukov had withdrawn
from the college a while ago. The college chief, Aleksey
Bezyazychnyy, told us about the cadet.
[Bezyazychnyy] Nikita Senyukov wrote an application saying he would
like to withdraw. You know, he was an ordinary student, just like any
other. He could not be classified as (? difficult). He went in for
sports, big way. He reached the qualifications of candidate master of
sports in unarmed combat. That’s all I can tell you. He was doing
fairly well in his studies too.
[Presenter] Sources close to the investigation point out that he was
traced thanks to the investigation into a criminal case of the
explosion at the Cherkizovskiy market. Some reports say Nikita
Senyukov was a member of one of the nationalist groups operating in
Moscow. Three of those detained on suspicion of [causing] the
explosion at the market were also members. This was mentioned
yesterday by the lawyer for Vigen Abramyants’ family, Simon
Tsaturyan.
[Tsaturyan] Obviously this individual, together with his accomplices,
was also linked to the explosion at the Cherkizovskiy market. The
motive is still the same: the crime was committed because of
interethnic strife. There could not have been any other motives. You
may remember that from the outset we protested strongly against the
theory that the murder was the result of a personal disagreement –
because Vigen allegedly quarrelled with a certain Kulagin. Thank God,
we have lived to see the day when the true circumstances of this
murder and the identities of the persons really involved in this
crime have been established.
[Passage omitted]
[Correspondent] The 17-year-old Management University student Vigen
Abramyants was killed on the evening of 22 April on a platform of the
Pushkinskaya underground station. He and his group-mates were
attacked by a group of teenagers wearing black jackets and high
boots. In the fight, one of the assailants stabbed Abramyants in the
heart, as a result of which the student died on the spot. Another two
people sustained non-life-threatening wounds to their faces and arms.
The assailants escaped. [Passage omitted.]
[Presenter] Let me quote the view of Ara Abramyan, president of the
Union of Armenians of Russia. He regrets that crimes with ethnic
motives are often committed by students and those from well-to-do
families. [Passage omitted.]
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress