Four residents of Tatarstan will be tried for participation in Shamil Basayev’s detachment

A criminal case has been sent to court against the alleged participants in the attack on Pskov paratroopers during the second Russian-Chechen war. Residents of Tatarstan Ilgam Gumerov, Ilgiz Mukhametgaliev, Khaidar Razzakov and Mukhamedvali Shaikhutdinov are accused under Part 2 of Article 209 (participation in a gang), Article 279 (armed rebellion) and Article 317 (attack on the life of military personnel) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

According to investigators, in 2000, persons involved in the commanders of the detachment of field commander Shamil Basayev and Khattab attacked servicemen of the 6th company of the 104th regiment of the 76th Pskov division of the Russian Airborne Forces in the Shatoi region of Chechnya. 84 soldiers were killed and four more were wounded.

As Memorial human rights activists noted, identical testimonies from relatives of Russian military personnel are presented in almost all criminal cases brought against natives of Chechnya on charges of participation in an attack on paratroopers. People repeat the official version or talk about the lives of their relatives before the incriminated events.

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