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| Zhuravel, who burned the Koran, said in court that he did not think about the consequences |
| 2024-02-13 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Nikita Zhuravel, accused of burning the Koran in Volgograd, stated in court that he did not think about the consequences, but only wanted to earn extra money. During a hearing of the Visaitovsky District Court of Grozny, he said that on May 4, 2023, he burned the Koran and filmed it on his mobile phone, after which he sent the filmed video to a user of the Telegram messenger with the nickname “//”. “After burning, I wrapped the remains of the Quran in a T-shirt and later threw it in the trash. I did this in order to obtain material resources. I didn’t think about the consequences,” Zhuravel said. Answering questions, Zhuravel said that he did not know the customer personally, but had been communicating with him since the end of February 2023 in the chat of the Telegram channel, and the contact was established while viewing public news on the topic of a special military operation. After this, Zhuravel, on the instructions of the customer, filmed the movement of special equipment in Volgograd, posted leaflets on the topic of evacuation of the population, and took other actions. He also said that he bought the Koran with his own money. Later, 800 rubles were transferred to him, he did not receive any other money and thought that the reward would come later. As Regnum reported, the incident with the burning of the Koran occurred in Volgograd in May 2023. Local resident Nikita Zhuravel was detained on suspicion of committing a crime. He admitted that he acted on the instructions of the Ukrainian intelligence services, which promised to pay him a reward of 10 thousand rubles. On May 22, the Central District Court of Volgograd sent him under arrest. Later, Russian Justice Minister Konstantin Chuychenko said that the attacker would serve his sentence in one of the regions of the country with a predominantly Muslim population. Law enforcement agencies opened a criminal case for insulting the feelings of believers, and at the end of May the accused was taken to the pre-trial detention center in Grozny. The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation explained that Zhuravel’s case was transferred to investigators in Chechnya, since the agency received numerous appeals from residents of the republic calling for them to be recognized as victims. In October, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, showed footage of a meeting with Zhuravel and said that he doubts that the young man arrested for burning the Koran sincerely wants to convert to Islam. He called the detainee a provocateur and saboteur who acted in the style of European intelligence services. More from kavkaz-uzel.eu Zhuravel explained the burning of the Koran with selfish motives Volgograd resident Nikita Zhuravel testified at a court hearing in Grozny that he burned the Koran in hopes of receiving a monetary reward. As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, on November 2, 2023, the court in Grozny began to consider the case of Volgograd resident Nikita Zhuravel, accused in the case of burning the Koran. He is accused of violating the right to freedom of conscience and religion and hooliganism. On February 7, the court hearing at which Zhuravel was supposed to testify was postponed at the request of the defense. On May 20, 2023, security forces detained Nikita Zhuravel in Volgograd. According to investigators, the detainee said that he recorded a video of the burning of the Koran at the direction of the Ukrainian special services and received 10 thousand rubles for it. He handed over the recording to an employee of the Ukrainian special services, for whom he also filmed military facilities, Sledkom reported. Nikita Zhuravel, while testifying in court, said that he was guided by material interests, Chechnya Segodnya news agency reports today. “On May 4, 2023, I burned the Koran and filmed it on my mobile phone. I sent the video to a user of the Telegram messenger with the nickname “//“. After burning, I wrapped the remains of the Koran in a T-shirt and later threw it into a trash can on the territory of my university. I did this with the purpose of obtaining material resources,” the agency quotes the defendant as saying. Answering questions from the participants in the process, Zhuravel said that he did not know the customer personally, but had been communicating with him since the end of February 2023 in a telegram channel chat. Zhuravel noted that, on the instructions of the customer, he filmed the movement of special equipment in Volgograd, wrote with paint: “Beware, today there is a killer in the city” on the wall under the bridge and posted leaflets on the topic of evacuation of the population. According to him, he bought the Koran with his own money, and later 800 rubles were transferred to him - he did not receive any other money, assuming that the reward would be “at the end of the cooperation,” RIA Novosti reports today. Related: Nikita Zhuravel: 2024-02-11 Lawyers called the Ombudsman's statement about the beating of Zhuravel by Kadyrov a formal reply Nikita Zhuravel: 2024-02-08 Chechen police refused to open a case of beating Zhuravel Nikita Zhuravel: 2024-01-31 Prosecution presented the court with a psychiatric examination of Zhuravel |
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