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Prosecutors Request Long Sentences in Makhachkala Airport Riots Case

2024-07-20

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[KavkazUzel] The state prosecutor at the Armavir City Court hearing on the case of the riots at the Makhachkala airport asked to sentence five defendants to terms of seven to 10 years. Several more cases will soon be submitted to the courts of Kuban and Stavropol, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office reported.

As reported by "Kavkazsky Uzel", the Armavir City Court twice postponed the start of the hearing of the case on the riots at the Makhachkala airport in relation to five defendants - Anvarbek Atayev, Islam Ibragimov, Magomed Omaraskhabov, Rabadan Radzhabov and Salik Ramazanov. The arrest of the accused was extended until December 30. Criminal cases on acute issues are better transferred to other regions, said the head of the Human Rights Council Valery Fadeyev, commenting on the trial in Armavir on the case of riots at the Makhachkala airport.

On February 17, relatives of the participants in the riots at the Makhachkala airport appealed to Putin with a request for leniency. They stated that their detained relatives were victims of a provocation and made a mistake.

The provocation being that a mob of local Moslems decided to hunt down arriving Israeli tourists following the Hamas atrocities on 10/7 — but when they didn’t find any of their chosen victims, they rioted instead.

The authors of the appeal noted that some families do not have the opportunity to travel to court hearings in Krasnodar Krai, where the case of five defendants has been transferred. Lawyers noted that the transfer of the case to Kuban can be appealed, but success is unlikely .

The Armavir City Court of Krasnodar Krai held a court hearing for five residents of Dagestan who were charged in a criminal case regarding the riots at the Makhachkala airport (five people are accused of participating in mass riots (Part 2 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), and one of the defendants is also accused of threatening to use violence against a government official (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation)). The state prosecutor proposed sentencing the defendants to imprisonment for a term of seven to 10 years, the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia reported today.

According to the prosecution, on October 29, 2023, the accused "at the Uytash airport in Makhachkala, on the basis of national and religious hatred and enmity towards Israeli citizens, refusing to comply with the legal demands of law enforcement officers, took part in mass riots accompanied by violence and destruction of property."

"The airport's property was destroyed and damaged to the amount of more than 24 million rubles, the requirements of transport and aviation security were violated, which led to a complete blocking of the airport's operations, the delay and cancellation of regular flights, and their redirection to other airports. Illegal actions were committed against 29 government officials, 23 of whom suffered bodily injuries of varying severity," the department's website said.

The report emphasizes that soon courts in the Krasnodar and Stavropol Territories will begin hearing other criminal cases on the riots at the Makhachkala airport. "In particular, on July 23, the Ust-Labinsk District Court of the Krasnodar Territory will consider the issue of extending the preventive measure for eight residents of the Republic of Dagestan who have been charged with participating in the riots," the department added.

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