00:07, 31 December 2020

Police detain relatives of suspects killed in Grozny, advocate reports

A car of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF). Photo by Nina Tumanova for the "Caucasian Knot"

Advocate Magomed Bekov has reported about a complaint filed to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) about the detention in Chechnya of relatives of two Ingush natives killed in Grozny. Facebook users call on people for more active dissemination of the information reported by the advocate.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that members of two Ingush teips (family clans) requested Ramzan Kadyrov to prove that the natives of Ingushetia killed by law enforcers on December 28 were terrorists.

According to the law enforcement bodies, the natives of Ingushetia attacked inspectors of the patrol-and-post service (known as PPS). In the course of the incident, both attackers and one of the police inspectors were killed.

A relative of the killed Temurziev brothers notes that no video records of the incident are available.

"According to the main version of the police use of firearms, the Temurziev brothers attacked the police inspectors with knives in order to seize their service weapons. The video posted on the Internet is incomplete, since it contains no very moment of the attack," Magomed Bekov, a member of the Rostov Regional Bar Association, said in his Facebook appeal.

It is also noted that the Chechen law enforcers took away three relatives of the Temurziev brothers to some unknown destination.

"I believe that the police actions to keep my relatives in custody are illegal ... There is reason to believe that the Temurziev brothers were killed unlawfully," Magomed Bekov emphasized in his statement.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on December 30, 2020 at 05:26 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.