Relatives of Chechen natives accused in “Wildberries” shooting case plead them being not guilty

Relatives of Chechen natives accused in the case on shooting in front of the “Wildberries” Company’s office in Moscow, as a result of which two natives of Ingushetia were killed, have claimed that those arrested are not guilty.

On March 10, in Grozny, Akhmed Dudaev, the assistant to the leader of Chechnya, Minister for National Policy, External Relations, Press, and Information, and Mansur Soltaev, the Ombudsperson in Chechnya, met relatives of Chechen natives detained during the incident in front of the “Wildberries” Company’s office, the “Grozny-Inform” news agency reports.

According to the news agency’s report, the detainees are “not-guilty residents of the republic” who are “being held in custody without any evidence, charged with murder.”

“Out of the 32 defendants detained on the day of the incident in front of the ‘Wildberries’ Company’s office, about half are natives of Chechnya. As it became known from their relatives, many of the detainees found themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time,” the report states.

So, a relative of Ramzan Kanaev, one of the detainees, claimed that his uncle worked as a builder in Moscow. When the man was going down the street for an appointment to get a job, he saw a crowd and decided to go around it. However, he was stopped by the police and taken to a police station together with other detainees.

Ombudsperson Mansur Soltaev promised the people that he would accept an appeal from the relatives on each detainee and that a collective appeal would also be drawn up.

Let us remind you that on September 18, 2024, a group of men smashed the windows at the entrance to a business centre in Moscow, where the “Wildberries” Company’s office was located. In response, gunfire was opened. As a result, natives of Ingushetia Islambek Elmurziev and Adam Almazov were killed.