In connection with claims of several members of the Human Rights Council concerning the criminal case over events on the Bolotnaya Square on 6 May the Investigative Committee explains that investigators have enough evidence which is basis for the charges of the subjects of the criminal case over mass riots and use of violence against representatives of the policemen. Investigators have no grounds to re-qualify actions of the accused.
The Main Investigations Directorate of the Russian Investigative Committee has a lot of video records made by independent media and persons, a lot of statements of witnesses and other materials, showing that the actions of the law enforcement were not in any way provocative, but were adequate to the aggression displayed by some persons. Investigators consider the actions of the initiators of a sit-in provocative as it was organized in the narrowest place to prevent the participants of the rally to go. No attacks of law enforcement on rally participants were registered. The police started to reply only when the rally participants had broken the cordon and attacked the policemen. Then over 50 law enforcement agents were injured.
All applications about illicit actions of the police were considered in procedural order and there were no grounds for launching criminal proceedings in either of them. In this connection investigators made decisions to refuse to initiate criminal cases.
As for restraining measure, investigators believe that the arrest and custody of the accused is a well-grounded measure and there are no reasons to change it now.
Investigating operations were finished last November. At present 12 accused and their 18 defenders are studying the materials of the case. At the moment from 60 volumes they have finished about a third. It should be noted, however, that the lawyer Murtazin (defending Artyom Savelov) has not once showed up to study the materials. This is why if the accused or their lawyers deliberately delay the process, the investigators will file a petition to limit the time.
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