Twelve angry men in uniform – Picture of the Day – Kommersant
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The Zheleznovodsk city court found 12 former employees of the patrol service (PPS) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia guilty of failure to comply with the order. In the spring of 2019, they refused to disperse participants in unauthorized protests against the agreement on the administrative border between Chechnya and Ingushetia. At the trial, the defendants pleaded not guilty, and also refused the last word. The prosecution sought real imprisonment for them, but the court appointed each one and a half years of probation.
In August 2019, the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the North Caucasus Federal District opened a case against Umalat Belkhoroev, Vakha Gandaloev, Beksultan Daurbekov, Isa Evloev, Ibragim Karakhoev, Beslan Sainaroev, Timerlan Toldiev, Temirlan Umarov, Beslan Khamkhoev, Timur Khamchiev, Ismail Tsechoev and Ramazan Ekazheva. The police officers, who had already been dismissed by that time, were charged under the article “deliberate non-fulfillment by an employee of the internal affairs body of the order of the head, given in the prescribed manner, committed by a group of persons” (part 2 of article 286.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
Recall that in September 2018, the then head of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, and the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov signed an agreement on the administrative border between the republics. This decision provoked mass protests in Ingushetia: in October, dissatisfied people held a round-the-clock rally outside the parliament building for 12 days. In March 2019, the protests resumed. On March 26, about 10 thousand people went to the building of the Ingushetia television and radio company in Magas for authorized rally – against the agreement and for the resignation of Mr. Yevkurov. At night, several thousand people remained on the square, announced permanent protest. Employees of the National Guard, sent to the republic from other regions, tried to force the protesters out of the square. At some point, employees of the Ingush Ministry of Internal Affairs lined up between other security forces and protesters.
According to the indictment, the ex-policemen refused to carry out the order of their superiors to stop the actions of the participants in the unauthorized rally, and thus “facilitated the onset of grave consequences.”
The investigation considered injuries of varying severity that, during a clash with protesters, the National Guardsmen sent to the republic received as grave consequences.
According to the investigation, the actions of the teaching staff were also associated with their hostile attitude towards the then head of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov. The prosecution considered the guilt of the ex-policemen fully proven and demanded for each of them two years and six months in a penal colony.
According to the defense, the defendants fully completed the task set by the leadership: none of the protesters went beyond the cordon. By their actions, the employees of the Ingush teaching staff, on the contrary, helped to achieve the departure of people from the square. And the three accused were generally removed from the cordon by their immediate superior, that is, in fact, they could not violate any order. None of the accused pleaded guilty; all twelve ex-cops refused the last word.
As a result, the court found all the accused guilty, specifying that their crime was committed “on the grounds of political enmity or hatred towards the republican authorities.”
Each defendant received a one-year, six-month suspended sentence.
Earlier, the case of another ex-policeman, Magomed Dolgiev, was separated into a separate proceeding. In November 2021, the Pyatigorsk City Court found him guilty, excluding the motive of political hatred and enmity from the sentence, and sentenced him to the same one and a half years of probation. The prosecutor’s office appealed this decision, and the case was sent for a new trial.
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