Last weekend in Dagestan, the leader of the entire bandit underground in the republic, Magomedali Vagabov, was liquidated. The intelligence services reported this as a major victory. And it's true [discussion]
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Vagabov was notable for his particular cruelty, and he was already destined for the glory of "the second Shamil Basayev". However, even after such a serious blow to the militants in Dagestan, explosions again rumble, they shoot at the security forces and officials. To understand what is happening, the KP correspondent went to this troubled Russian republic. UNDECLARED WAR Now in the North Caucasus we seem to have peace. But, judging by the number of victims, the war continues. And it seems that the leading front of the fight against Islamic fundamentalism has flowed to Dagestan. Every day - killings of policemen, militants, shootings, explosions, chases, death of civilians. Now suicide bombers are going to blow up Moscow from Dagestan, and not from Chechnya, as before. Why has the republic, multinational and tolerant by Caucasian standards, changed so dramatically, turned upside down and now appears to Russians as a continuous source of aggression? Makhachkala breathes heat, which is only slightly cooled down by the wind from the Caspian Sea in the late afternoon. Cafes on the embankment smoke with shish kebab, music from the tires of cars starting with a squeal beats on the ears. An ordinary evening in a southern city... But it is at this time, with the onset of twilight, that terrorist attacks usually take place here.
The chronology of explosions and attacks in Dagestan is striking in its stability. Both ordinary law enforcement officers and high-ranking policemen die under the bullets of militants. The principle of the bandits is this: if you see a man in uniform, kill him. It doesn't matter if it's your neighbor or just a police officer. The response of the security forces is appropriate: the slightest suspicion of involvement in illegal armed groups (illegal armed formations) is fire to kill. The statistics of an undeclared war are clearly not in favor of law enforcement agencies. Count for yourself: this year, 82 dead law enforcement officers and 131 wounded. On the other side of the barricades - 60 killed plus 66 detained members of illegal armed formations and their accomplices. "Unplanned losses" - 11 dead civilians and 57 wounded. They are simply "unlucky" to be in the zone of fire. WHAT COLOR WILL THE MOUNTAIN REVOLUTION BE? Most of the population of Dagestan lives, if not below the poverty line (here family ties do not allow one to sink to the level of poverty), then very close to it. Against the backdrop of corruption of officials at all levels with their conspicuous wealth and impunity, the bulk of the population of the republic looks clearly destitute. And ... offended. If you are not in the clan, nothing will happen to you: neither a horse, nor a saber, nor a cloak. There are not enough influential relatives who are able to buy or pass on a position by inheritance. Such injustice, multiplied by the Caucasian nepotism and hot tempers of the southerners, with whom it is shameful to be poor and simply unlucky in life, creates a fertile environment from which Wahhabism feeds. “In our country, the authorities seem to live on their own, the law enforcement agencies themselves, and the people are somewhere on the sidelines,” Dagestani journalists bring up to date. - Those who could get a hold of a more or less serious business are forced to pay either officials or militants. Who will agree. And all the latest assassination attempts, kidnappings and murders of businessmen or civil servants are directly related to racketeering. The militants are in the lead here - they imposed tribute on the owners of the gambling business, restaurants, cognac and vodka magnates.
Many people pay militants. In the local FSB, I was shown a video message from a certain Emir of Dagestan to one of the owners of vodka shops. "The man from the forest", dressing his words in religious formulations, tritely demanded compensation in favor of the Mujahideen. And not a word about the rejection of alcohol by the Muslim religion! Drive and vodka, and loot! Officials and merchants are openly afraid of the militants and are forced to pay tribute to them. So the recent abduction in the Untsukulsky district of Dagestan of Vladimir Redkin, the chief engineer of the OJSC "Sulak Hydropower Cascade", Vladimir Redkin, was immediately connected by the security forces with attempts to receive payoffs from the militants. It would seem - a hydraulic engineer, what to take from him? But no, there is state funding, there is money - come on and pay! And on the other hand, in Dagestan, the Wahhabis managed to create for themselves the image of a kind of fighters for justice. Like, if in the republic, according to Russian laws, there is a complete embezzlement of public funds, a decline in morals and the arbitrariness of the security forces, then we will establish Sharia and live according to fair Islamic laws. The militants make good PR out of their actions. Either they will kill a corrupt judge, then they will shoot a police post in Buynaksk, a dozen meters from which there is a brothel, and at the same time they will kill the priestesses of love in the sauna. And they will certainly leave an autograph on the wall, in the manner of a “black cat”, only with the indispensable mention of the word “jihad”. Against this backdrop of the cultivation of Wahhabism in Dagestan, traditional Islam is losing influence, and moderate and loyal mullahs are no longer supported, especially among young people. The militants' bet is on young people, who, apart from age-related protest (it exists in all corners of Russia), find no use in ordinary creative life. There are no jobs, opportunities for studying or playing sports in the republic are also limited. Against this background, the Wahhabis very cleverly turn their ideology into a fashionable protest movement.
HOW PEOPLE GO TO ACTION The militants are somewhere out there, in the mountains, living in forest caches and attacking convoys and police cars. Those who are in the mountains and the forest are “defectors”, there is no way back for them. They forever linked themselves with jihad - a holy war against the infidels. Among the infidels are not only Russians or non-Muslims, but all other residents of the republic who do not profess Wahhabi beliefs. To kill a kafir or a mushrik (who has fallen out of religion) is the holy duty of a Mujahideen. And if you don’t want to, they will force “comrades in arms”. They also have their own reporting statistics for their “top” - it is necessary to give “indicators” to the Arab owners, to fulfill the plan for terrorist attacks. There are not so many militants in the mountains. The account is not in the thousands, but rather in the hundreds - the number of active does not exceed five hundred "bayonets". Nevertheless, they manage to keep in fear not only the police, but also most of the population. And despite this, some local residents even receive support! Why? The militants try not to take anything away from the inhabitants of the villages near which they are based. This is the Caucasus, where for any offense you can run into reciprocal revenge. How then do militants who do not engage in any productive activity, except for murders and terrorist attacks, survive? Like any partisan structure, the Mujahideen are fed from among sympathizers, those who are in a legal position, but have already been hooked by militants. “The militants have a scheme to win over to their side,” says an FSB officer for the Republic of Dagestan named Denis. - Often, potential Mujahideen candidates do not even suspect that they are being recruited to participate in a bandit structure. As a rule, it all starts with the religious treatment of a candidate for militants. As if by chance, one of his friends (who has already fallen on the hook of the Wahhabis) asks an innocent question: “Do you pray? Not? We must pray. Let's go to the mosque together." And the newcomer is taken to the Wahhabi mosque. There are several of them in Makhachkala, and quite official ones, their addresses are known to everyone, including members of the special services. The parishioners of these mosques are put on a special account. The newly-minted Wahhabi still does not understand that he has already entered the bandit underground with one foot. But we can assume that it has already been drawn in. This is followed by an innocent request - you need to help transport the products "somewhere in the mountains." A person is already aware that he is involved in some illegal structure and a halo of mystery shrouded his existence. It is already impossible to refuse, especially since the action itself is not responsible - just think, I went to the market, then unloaded the packages in the mountains. I didn't even see anyone. But the nail is already bogged down... Further, requests of a more "delicate" nature follow: to transport weapons or militants to the site of the terrorist attack. And this is a direct involvement in the gang underground, for which you can seriously pay. Now the banal arrival of a local policeman to check documents can provoke a panic: “I was figured out!” There is only one way - to the forest.
THE SHORT LIFE OF A TERRORIST“Those who go into the forest become, in essence, suicide bombers,” FSB operatives say. - Their lives are measured out for six months, others - a little more. The militants are really caught, and more often they are simply eliminated in large numbers. There are plenty of reports of their deaths. So it turns out that the age of the action movie is short-lived. But new ones are coming to replace the dead... Long peaks have already appeared in some Dagestan cemeteries - a sign that the unavenged is buried here. And there are more and more such poles crowned with the Muslim crescent. Previously, Chechen cemeteries “decorated” such peaks in many, now the tradition has spread to Dagestan. In the North Caucasus, all militant groups are divided into vilayats, which are headed by military amirs. As a rule, the boundaries of responsibility here are divided on a territorial basis - Dagestan vilayat, Kabardino-Balkarian, Chechen. In some cases, the borders are crossed, but each of their amirs clearly controls the territory under their jurisdiction. The last amir of Dagestan was Magomedali Vagabov, who was killed a few days ago. The very path of his rise to power in the world of illegal armed formations is worthy of description. He received this position from Arab patrons after numerous intrigues and murders, not only of enemies, but also of fellow believers. It was a kind of shortcut to the board - access to funding. And this is the Arab lever of influence on the North Caucasus. In fact, they are trying to turn the Russian region into an ideological colony of Saudi Arabia. Having received combat training in Pakistan, Vagabov tried very hard to curry favor in Dagestan in front of the Arabs who finance terrorist acts - how can one fight without money? When Vagabov became the Emir of Dagestan, his ambitions resulted in a new wave of terrorist attacks. The loudest - in the Moscow metro on March 29 this year. It was he who sent the Shahidok there. INCORRECT "SHAHIDKS" - Do you know what militants most often come across? They're on fire! - say the FSB people. - The guys are young, hot, hormones in the body in abundance, but they have no way out. There is tension with women in the forest, so they go out to their fighting friends, and here we catch them. According to operatives, about 70% of all militants are destroyed in this way. The special services already have their own well-established schemes and methods in this regard - in general, "cherchet la femme"! But what about Muslim customs about honor and loyalty? Why do mountain girls have such a passion for adultery? - These are the same crazy young ladies, like their gentlemen, who fell under the influence of Wahhabis. For the most part, these are girls from dysfunctional families who have started a promiscuous sex life early, and, as they say, nothing shines for them in terms of creating a normal family. So they marry militants - without any wedding and other rituals, including the blessing of their parents - they reveal the social portrait of a "shahid" in the special services. However, there are those among them who run away from home out of great love - they fell in love with a guy up to their ears, and he turned out to be a Mujahideen. Young people enter into a so-called amanat marriage - a forbidden marriage. Some even go to the mountains with their husbands. And then the scenario is almost the same - the spouse is killed, and the girl is inherited by another militant. Then the next one, and so on... As a rule, "shahids" cluster together. They live semi-legally. A legend for parents - she went to study in Makhachkala (nothing new, prostitutes from the Russian outback also lie to their relatives that they got a job in Moscow). In conversations among themselves, the girls vying with each other swear that they are ready to sacrifice themselves in order to avenge their murdered militant husband. And then they are caught at their word and begin to process in full. So it was with six girls detained in July in Makhachkala, who were being prepared for terrorist attacks in Moscow. Among them, the most notable are the sisters Zaira and Zalina Akayeva. Despite their youth, they are already widows. They were connected with the militants by the eldest Zulfiya, also the widow of a militant, at the time of her arrest she was with her parents. Weapons, martyrs' belts, light-colored wigs, lenses that change the color of the eyes, and farewell notes - as the police say, the fact of preparations for a terrorist attack is obvious. “It was a well-organized group that was preparing to blow itself up, there is no doubt about it,” the operatives say. - The "Black Widows" were supposed to leave for Moscow soon, but the operation to detain them was premature ... Having received the information, the opera began to develop them - appearances, passwords, meetings. But the command "face" prematurely followed from the authorities. Six people were detained, but some of the "black widows" did not get into the nets set up, and now they are being actively searched for. “The result was given, but the effectiveness was not what it could have been,” the operatives complain. WHAT IS OUR LIFE? STRUGGLE! The request to get acquainted with the militant was absurd at first glance. But access to the gangster underground turned out to be surprisingly simple. Through one Dagestani friend, I was introduced to the driver, who, in turn, introduced me to his friend, and he led me to a militant. I’ll note right away that the authenticity of his involvement in an illegal armed formation caused me doubt (the special services would have taken it), but I had to believe it. The scene of action is one of the outlying districts of Makhachkala. The fighter is a young guy of about twenty, inconspicuous appearance, a beard and a dark shirt of a loose fit. This can be found on the street and not suspect anything - there are a lot of the same guys around. That's just the eyes were struck - some kind of confident look, with a share of superiority. He introduced himself as Magomed - Maga (a very common name here). “We are fighting for pure Islam,” Maga immediately outlined the “party line”. - And we want to create a genuine Sharia state. - And why fight, because religion does not promote violence? - We have enemies who prevent us from achieving our goal, and in the fight against them, none of us will spare our lives. The propagandist and agitator from Magi is so-so, a three with a minus, mostly pouring out quotes he heard from militant ideologues. But there is no doubt about the sincerity of his words - small, but already aggressive, ready to bite his teeth. We are strong, everyone here is afraid of us. Every real Muslim is obliged to help the Mujahideen, - Magomed gives out categorically. It seemed that the boy was flirting with the war game and considers himself a member of a secret society that keeps the whole district in fear. This happens among those young men who cannot realize their ambitions in studies, sports or other achievements and ends up in a “bad company”, where the support of “serious boys” is guaranteed. I recalled the words of local intelligence officers on this occasion. “For the most part, it is those who have fallen out of the ordinary life of modern youth that fall into the structure of the illegal armed formations. Without special physical data, without academic success, sometimes deprived of the attention of their peers. These are people with some kind of internal complexes. The gang underground gives them a chance to feel their status due to belonging to a rebellious and armed structure. They become the "chosen ones", the arbiters of other people's destinies. It draws in and fascinates, makes it possible to feel its significance. And the religious background here often remains in second place,” analysts of the special services believe. Maga, have you killed people yet? - I ask the militant a provocative question in the forehead. - No, I haven't killed yet, but I can do it in the name of Allah at any moment. And he will do it. He has already aroused himself to the state of a murderer and is ready for such a "feat" - to launch a line at anyone whom the amir points out. And then he will have no more than six months to live ... GOODBYE, DAGESTAN?... The main question is: what do we do with all this now? After all, the dynamics of events in Dagestan is not just alarming - it promises to turn into global extremist actions that can overshadow even the two previous Chechen wars! It's like a tsunami - some will rise to avenge the murdered militant relatives, others - for the murdered policemen. After all, people in uniform also have relatives. Here, the civil war is not far away - and it can easily spill out beyond the borders of Dagestan. Rhetorical question: what to do? Most likely, you need to seize the initiative. To snatch the flag of the struggle for justice and the purity of religion from the hands of the militants, with which they hide behind. Finally start a real fight against theft, nepotism, debauchery. The authorities themselves - the officials and the security forces, and at the same time the mullahs - need to be cleansed. Raise the economy, not plunder tranches from the federal center. If you do not restore order in your ranks, it will be impossible to mow down the ranks of the bandit underground by forceful methods alone. I wrote these lines and thought: who am I deceiving now? Myself? Who will believe that officials will stop taking bribes and kickbacks right from next Monday? And the police - to protect businessmen? But it seems that there is no other way out either!.. If Dagestan falls into the abyss of a terrorist war, shouting "Help!" It will be late.
MEANWHILE
Yamadayev reconciled with Kadyrov Isa Yamadayev finally admitted that his brother Hero of Russia Sulim Yamadayev, who was assassinated a year ago in the Emirates, is still dead. went to the world with Ramzan Kadyrov. Until recently, these two clans were ardent antagonists and accused each other of all sorts of sins. The Yamadayevs openly suspected the current president of Chechnya of involvement in the murders of their relatives. Particularly incomprehensible was the story of the death of Sulim Yamadayev, lieutenant colonel of the Russian army, Hero of Russia, ex-commander of the Vostok GRU battalion, who was assassinated in the Emirates in 2009. Since then, Isa Yamadayev has maintained that his brother is alive and that he maintains telephone contact with him. And now Isa has officially admitted that Sulim is dead and buried outside of Chechnya, most likely in the same Emirates. It seemed that the “Chechen-style vendetta” would continue indefinitely, but last week there was a fateful meeting between Isa Yamadayev, greatly weakened by losses in his clan, and Ramzan Kadyrov. It was like a peace treaty. After such a “surrender,” this is how experts assess the meeting between Yamadayev and Kadyrov, Isa Yamadayev, who lives in one of the cities of the Moscow region, is unlikely to enter the Chechen political elite, but will certainly receive carte blanche of security.
In Kizlyar (Dagestan), a 22-year-old couch terrorist shot four women leaving a church with a gun and wounded five. The militant criticized the couch mujahideen sitting in anonymous chats and called for terrorist attacks in Russia during the 2018 World Cup. As a result, he was shot like a dog by the National Guard. The only sure way to restore justice is to destroy the bastard on the spot. Without courts and trials, so as not to endanger the lives of other people.
Literally two years ago, I asked myself a rhetorical question at the time: what the hell are we doing in Syria? Now the answer to it has appeared: we kill dogs.
For those who are indignant that the terrorists are allegedly defeated, and terrorist attacks like the one that took place in Dagestan continue, it should be reminded that militants can be killed, but a crazy idea cannot be destroyed. And while she is alive, the next Mujahideen with an unstable psyche will appear, who will take up arms and go out into the street.
And the worst thing is that the sleeping cells in which they are located are located all over the world, and no one knows when their members deign to wake up. In this sense, we must say "many thanks" to the Russian FSB, which in the overwhelming majority of cases neutralizes militants BEFORE, not AFTER.
That is why terrorist attacks rarely occur in large cities of the Russian Federation. Rarely relative to the same Europe, of course. This is a great merit of the organs, the work of which is almost imperceptible to the layman. Stupid because if a terrorist attack occurs, everyone will write about it, and if it is prevented, it will go unnoticed by the majority, both the media and citizens.
By the way, the militant who attacked the women leaving the church left a long video in which he called on the brothers to carry out attacks in Russia, including during the 2018 World Cup. He reproached the couch mujahideen, saying that he had logged into IS supporters' telegram chats, but quickly became disillusioned, as he was depressed by "idle chatter." And so he decided to act. The reason why he attacked the parishioners of the church, especially women, he did not name.
“Meanwhile, selective killings of women, children and the elderly are extremely atypical for Islamists in general. Even to carry out an explosion in a crowded place where these categories of citizens may suffer, the militants are trying to enlist the support of theologians who would allow them to carry out a terrorist attack. However, in November 2016, an audio message was released by Abu Jihad al-Karachay, a well-known media personality in the circles of ISIS supporters, in which he called for the killing of women and children of “infidels” in order to avenge the death of the civilian population in Syria. The terrorist adheres to the same argumentation, explaining that “it is necessary to kill infidels by the hundreds every day” if “they kill Muslims by the thousands”.
A categorically different point of view was held by the leader of the Caucasus Emirate, Aliaskhab Kebekov (also known as Ali Abu-Muhammad), who at one time strictly forbade such terrorist attacks.”
And here I would like to say that no propaganda of the Kremlin or the Ukrainian media works as smoothly and effectively as IS propaganda.
Militants shoot themed videos with an enviable frequency, and most of them resemble documentaries for educational channels. They are as accessible, cruel and motivating as possible, as evidenced by the emergence of numerous new supporters of the IS. And although most of them stupidly live in chat rooms, arguing about weapons and other nonsense, there are a few who act like an idiot did in Dagestan.
Today's bastard avenged the dead Muslims in Syria, and he called his act "Operation Retribution."
I am writing all this to the fact that it does not matter who is in Syria from ours: Wagner PMCs, mercenaries, volunteers, thugs, murderers, mentally retarded or someone else. In general, it doesn’t matter how the Kremlin positions them, tries to hide them from prying eyes, or, on the contrary, calls them Heroes of Russia. The important thing is that these people are doing the dirty work that you will not agree to.
And the argument that supposedly, if we hadn’t climbed into Syria, nothing would have happened, is very strange. It would have been many times more. And so our guys do what they do best - kill dogs. And it doesn't matter that they get paid for it. The motivation to be left without arms, legs, or to be packed in a black bag does not warm anyone.
It is important that they destroy Evil, and there is no point in reproaching the authorities or the so-called volunteers. The infection is multiplying faster than it can be dealt with. And therefore, I consider the presence of our people in Syria justified.
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On August 23, 2016, the brothers Gasangusein and Nabi Gasangusenov from the village of Goor-Khindakh, Shamilsky district of Dagestan, woke up at dawn and went to a pasture located a few kilometers from the village. That summer, 19-year-old Gasangusein hoped to earn money to help his disabled parents save money for the construction of a new house, so he, along with 17-year-old schoolboy Nabi, made an hour and a half every morning along the mountain paths to the slope where the sheep were grazing. There was no other work in their village.
In the evening, Gasanguseyn and Nabi warned their mother that they would soon return home.
“My sons called me at 21:05 at night and said: “Mom, we are going home, cook fried fish for us and fry bread in butter. We will be at home in an hour and a half.” While preparing food for my hungry children, I waited for them. But they didn't go. No matter how much I called the phone, they still didn’t pick up,” Patimat Aliyeva told a Kavpolit correspondent. Without waiting for her sons, she went to bed.
At about six in the morning, the bodies of the brothers, abandoned in the bushes on the way to the pasture, were found by their uncle Israpil Magomedov. Gasangusein and Nabi were without shoes and lay face down; blood stains on the path someone sprinkled with sand. The corpses were dressed in black jackets with hoods, on top of them - on the backs of the dead - someone put machine guns. Next to the bodies, Magomedov found plastic slippers, army boots and backpacks. “I approached, lifted one of the jackets. I didn't recognize him right away, his face was covered in blood. Then I looked again and recognized them,” recalled a relative of the dead shepherds. Later, relatives counted eight bullet wounds on Hasangusein's body, and there were at least 13 on the body of his younger brother. At the same time, there were only two bullet holes in the jackets; Magomedov is sure that the brothers were changed after death.
On the same morning, the military arrived at the house where the Gasangusenovs lived, and the police arrived at the place where the bodies were found. They took away the bodies for a forensic examination, however, fearing that the security forces would not give the remains to relatives and disrupt the funeral, the villagers went into the department and took the dead. On the same day, Gasanguseyn and Nabi were buried at the local cemetery. Several hundred people came to say goodbye to the young people.
Official version
According to law enforcement agencies, on August 23, operational-search activities were carried out approximately two kilometers from Goor-Hindah. At 21:45, young people fired at the security forces and were killed by return fire; An unnamed Interfax source called the brothers members of the "Shamil group."
From the report of the acting head of the police department of the Shamil district, Ibragim Aliyev, it followed that employees of the republican department of the FSB, the Dagestan Center for Combating Extremism, the FSB of Russia and the department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Shamil district participated in the special operation. After the death of the suspects, a criminal case was opened on the fact of encroachment on the life of a law enforcement officer and illegal possession of weapons (articles 317 and 222 of the Criminal Code).
Relatives and acquaintances of the Gasangusenovs did not believe in the version of the republican authorities. The villagers insisted that the dead shepherds had nothing to do with terrorist organizations and spent all their time helping their families. “They helped not only their parents, but also us, fellow villagers: they would chop firewood for someone, harvest someone, carry water, they earned extra money,” said Khadzhibaty Ramazanova, a teacher at a rural school. - Then they decided to shepherd, to earn bread. That's how they fed the family."
The elder of the village, Magomed Magomedov, confirmed that the brothers devoted all their time to work and were not seen in connection with the militants.
“My children were accused of setting fire to a school in the village of Teletl. They've never even been there. They are also credited with the murder of a judge in the village of Asab. As a mother of dead sons, I want to know on what basis my children were killed,” Aliyeva said. According to her, the security forces themselves dressed Gasanguseyn and Nabi "in the clothes of militants" and "tarnished their good name."
Almost a week after the funeral of the Gasangusenovs, unrest in the village of Goor-Khindakh drew attention the head of Dagestan Ramazan Abdulatipov. On his Instagram, he noted that relatives and fellow villagers of those killed “deny the possibility of young people participating in illegal armed groups,” and “some media outlets question the information of law enforcement agencies.”
“The matter is under investigation. I have discussed this problem with the prosecutor of the republic, he keeps the investigation under control. Please be patient. Everyone who has doubts will be answered,” Abdulatipov assured.
Despite these promises, neither the head of the republic, nor other authorities have tried to sort out the situation, says Murtazaali Gasangusenov, the father of the murdered young people. “He [Abdulatipov] did not even come to us when he came to the opening of a tuberculosis hospital in a neighboring village. He did not deign to drive one kilometer and offer condolences,” he says.
Investigation
On January 31, Murtazaali Gasangusenov appealed to the Department of the Investigative Committee for Dagestan with a demand to open a criminal case into the murder of his sons. In February, investigator Bagrat Safaraliev, who was investigating the case of an attack on security officials, promised that an investigation would be carried out on the application.
At the beginning of the year, Gasangusenov's interests, at the initiative of the Memorial Human Rights Center, began to be represented by lawyers Murad Magomedov and Shamil Magomedov. On February 21, 2017, they tried to get access to the case file, but the investigator refused them - in response to the demand of the defenders, he explained that Gasanguseyn and Nabi did not have the status of suspects or accused in a criminal case, which means that lawyers could not represent the interests of their parents. The lawyers appealed against the refusal to familiarize themselves with the materials of the case, and then complained about the inaction of the investigation, which was supposed to make a decision to initiate a case on Gasangusenov's statement within three days. In both cases, the court sided with the family of the victims.
According to Memorial, in the course of the preliminary investigation into the assassination attempt on police officers, 10 machine guns belonging to the Center for Combating Extremism and the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Shamil District were seized. The experts could not establish from which machine guns the shells found at the scene were fired. Only one of the 18 shell casings found was fired from a machine gun left on the body of one of the shepherds. At the same time, the involvement of FSB officers in the murder of the Gasangusenov brothers was not verified, human rights activists note.
Novaya Gazeta, which followed the investigation, tried to find out why no cordon had been set up around the place of the special operation, and which of the law enforcement officers moved and dressed the bodies. These questions were sent to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dagestan, Abdurashid Magomedov. “We have not received a response to this request. First, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs explained to us that they had lost the request, and then, after hesitating, they directly said that “we have nothing to answer you. We don’t know,” the publication wrote.
Vyacheslav Nazarov, deputy head of the FSB department for Dagestan, told Novaya Gazeta that “on August 23, 2016, in the vicinity of the village of Goor-Khindakh, Shamil district, the SOG-5 officers did not carry out any operational-search activities.” According to him, the FSB did not take part in any special operations in the Shamil region that day.
“For a year and three months we were fed with replies from the prosecutor's office of Dagestan. We wrote to everyone, including this [acting head of the republic, Vladimir] Vasiliev, who came here as president. Then something just started,” says Murtazaali Gasangusenov. According to him, quite recently he received a response from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which states that on August 23, 2016, no special operations were carried out in the Shamil district of the republic.
On November 13, the European Court of Human Rights received a complaint from representatives of Murtazaali Gasangusenov. In it, representatives of the father of the executed shepherds complain about the violation of Articles 2 (the right to life), 13 (the right to an effective remedy) and 8 (the right to respect for private and family life) of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.
Murder case
On November 29, it became known that the Investigative Committee for the Republic of Dagestan opened a criminal case into the murder of the Gasangusenov brothers, and their father was recognized as a victim. However, neither the lawyers nor the victim himself have yet seen a decision to initiate a case.
“Prior to this, such criminal cases were terminated due to the death of the suspects. But there is a decision of the Constitutional Court, which says that if the relatives of the dead protest against the termination of the criminal case, then the investigation cannot terminate this case. It is obliged to bring it before the transfer to the court. In this form, they cannot bring the case [of the Gasangusenovs] to court, not a single court will find them guilty. And we wrote a statement addressed to the investigator that the father is against the termination of the criminal case, ”lawyer Murad Magomedov explains the unexpected decision of the Investigative Committee.
The defender recalls that the court ordered the investigators to conduct an investigation into the death of Murtazaali's sons. The investigators could not ignore the court decision. “Well, the wide resonance that this case received. We tried to make everything public as much as possible, attracted the attention of the media to this. All these factors together had an effect on the investigators,” says Magomedov.
According to another lawyer, Shamil Magomedov, at a meeting with the victim, the investigator announced the termination of the criminal case under the article on encroachment on the life of a law enforcement officer, but he also did not show the corresponding decision to the father of the murdered young people.
“Now it turns out that there are two criminal cases conducted by one investigator. In the first criminal case, article 317 was closed, but article 222 (illicit arms trafficking) of the Criminal Code remained in it. That is, it turns out that the investigation admits that the brothers had weapons with them, - the defender explained in an interview with the Novoe Delo publication. - Article 222 also appears in the second criminal case initiated on the fact of the murder of the Gasangusenov brothers, and this is already a sign that, according to the investigation, it was not law enforcement officers who shot at the brothers. The ruling now says that unidentified persons fired. If the case had been conducted against law enforcement officers, this article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - 222nd - would not have existed, since the security forces have service weapons and they own them legally. Perhaps the investigation will follow the path of looking for unknown persons (perhaps some bandits) who entered into a shootout with the brothers.
Gasangusenov emphasizes that in the time that has passed since the murder of his sons, the investigators have not been able to provide at least some evidence of their connection with the terrorist underground: My children have only seen guns on TV.”
He is sure that Ibrahim Aliyev, who in 2016 was the acting head of the Shamil district police department, is responsible for the death of Gasangusein and Nabi. He was later promoted to head of the department. “He just put the blame for the murder of the judge on my sons, killed two shepherds,” Murtazaali said.
“Do you know what I fear the most? That an innocent person can be blamed for the death of my sons,” he says.
In the Dagestan city of Kizlyar, an unidentified person opened fire on a crowd of people during the celebration of Maslenitsa, four people were killed, Interfax and RIA Novosti sources report. Return fire, according to them, the shooter was killed.
"The tragedy happened today, Sunday, during Maslenitsa in Kizlyar. Four civilians were killed, the same number of people were injured. The law enforcement officers liquidated the offender with return fire," the agency's interlocutor said.According to him, among the wounded are three employees of the National Guard.
"According to information at the moment, 5 dead (including the shooter), 5 wounded were delivered to the Kizlyar Central City Hospital - a team of specialists from the Dagestan Center for Disaster Medicine went there," -
at the Ministry of Health of Dagestan.February 18, 18:13 The woman who was with the perpetrator was detained. The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case under articles on murder and attempt on the life of a law enforcement officer. "The identity of the attacker has been established, he is a local resident born in 1995," the Investigative Committee said. "A hunting rifle, cartridges and a knife were found on the victim," a TASS source said.
"A woman who, according to preliminary information, is the wife of a bandit who shot at people in Kizlyar, and who was with her husband at the beginning of the act, was detained by law enforcement officers," an informed source told the Interfax news agency."She tried to escape, but did not have time. Also, previously, the woman herself did not shoot, only the man shot, who was subsequently destroyed by return fire from the security forces," the agency's interlocutor added.
February 18, 18:40 One of the victims died in the hospital, the death toll rose to five (not counting the shooter), the head of the press service of the Kizlyar administration told RIA Novosti.
"The condition of the victims is unchanged, two women are in serious condition, they are in intensive care. A policeman and a fighter of the National Guard are in a moderate condition," said [chief doctor of the Dagestan Center for Disaster Medicine Kazanfar] Kurbanov.He also clarified that on the eve of one of the women, an arm was amputated at the level of the elbow joint.
TASS
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