The Official Version Vs the Unofficial Version
"The official version of the inquiry is more than absurd. In my opinion it is the result of a political order from the Kremlin.""[Nemtsov had] never spoken negatively about Islam [merely criticised Islamists who gunned down 12 people at Charlie Hebdo's offices in January]."Ilya Yashin, co-founder with Boris Nemtsov of opposition movement Solidarnost
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So, then, five men behind bars. Good work, isn't that, getting to the core of the assassination that removed an irritant from President Vladimir Putin's thin hide. And since Mr. Putin sincerely promised a skeptical world that he would personally undertake to see that the killers of one of his arch-enemies would be brought to justice, who will now doubt his word? Well, perhaps the five men under arrest, charged/suspected in the Kremlin critic's untimely death.
Two charged with the shooting of Mr. Nemtsov, the other three remanded pending the filing of charges which under Russian law gives the prosecutors ten days to fulfill. Chechens all, from the North Caucasus. Their ethnic origin guaranteed to convince Russians that they were responsible for discharging the evil deed. Since all Chechens by Russian reckoning are violent extremists. An earned reputation, to be sure.
Unnamed sources report that a sixth suspect had co-opted the move to hold him responsible in part for the killing of Mr. Nemtsov. He simply removed himself from the potential for arrest and trial by tossing a grenade at the police who had arrived to arrest him in Grozny. Unfortunately, outcomes are not always predictable, and the grenade exploded a little too close to the man who tossed it, Beslan Shavanov, eliminating him from contention.
The major suspect, Zaur Dadaev, whom Dmitry Medvedev had awarded a medal for bravery in 2010 appears defiant. He had served in interior ministry forces in Chechnya, His mother informed the media that her son had served ten years in the North battalion in Chechnya, headed by relatives of the republic's pro-Putin leader, Ramsan Kadyrov.
Zaur Dadaev is described by Chechen president Ramsan Kadyrov as a deeply religious man, offended by a purported statement made by Mr. Nemtsov condemning the Paris Charlie Hebdo attacks. This being given as the reason for the former deputy prime minister (under Boris Yeltsin) being targeted by Islamists for a revenge death for insulting Islam. Whereas Mr. Kadyrov stated his view that the assassination represented the work of Western security services.
The Russian Investigative Committee however, feels comfortable in naming Islamic extremism as a motivation for the killing of Mr. Nemtsov. Although law enforcement officials have not released any of the details that led them to investigating the involvement of the five Chechens in the killing of Mr. Nemtsov they are confident enough in their arrests to state they are all guilty.
A conclusion obviously not shared by the opposition who feel that the killing was ordered by the Kremlin.
Labels: Assassination, Chechnya, Justice, Public Relations, Russia, Vladimir Putin
posted by Pieface @ Tuesday, March 10, 2015
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