SKINHEADS ACCUSED OF MURDER OF ARMENIAN STAND TRIAL IN NIZHNY NOVGOROD
PanARMENIAN.Net
15.06.2006 15:54 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Two young people, members of a skinhead organization
stand trial in Nizhni Novgorod, Russia. Alexander Boytsov is accused
of public calls for extremist activities and inciting of national
hatred. His friend Roman Lavrentyev is charged of premeditated murder,
the press service of the department for Privolzhsky okrug at the
Russian Ministry of Interior said.
The source said the investigation found out that September 17, 2005
Boytsov and Lavrentyev drinking alcohol with their friends calling them
for violence against people of non-Slavonic nationality. On the same
evening Lavrentyev noticed two unknown men with Caucasian appearance,
one of whom was Tomas Amaryan, an Armenian citizen. Lavrentyev asked
the men for a cigarette but they did not have one and tried to escape
in order to avoid beating. Drunk Lavrentyev decided to kill Amaryan and
ran after him. When the Armenian stumbled and fell down the skinhead
took out a knife and stabbed him many times. Amaryan died in hospital.
It took the investigators two months to find and detain the criminals,
reported RIA Novosti according to the press service.