Special juvenal court will consider the criminal case about attack by Nazi-skinheads of the environmental protest camp near Angarsk town (in Eastern Siberia) which happened summer 2007. The anti-fascist from Nachodka (Far East) Ilya Borodaenko perished after being seriously injured. The court will consider 45 volumes of the criminal case on a charge of 20 young men, 11 of which were not 18 years old at the moment of attack.
Interests of one of the injured at the instance of the movement "Avtonomnoye Deystviye" (Autonomous Action) are represented by the Interregional Human-Rights Association "AGORA". The judicial investigation has determined that more than 20 young men, armed with baseball bats, ferrous twigs and knives had attacked the camp of environmentalists who protested against an expansion of production at the local uranium enrichment plant. Seven injured were hospitalized, two of them were in serious condition. Ilya died of craniocerebral injury and spine fracture.
21 people were recognized as an aggrieved party. 20 accused are charged with hooliganism committed by previous concert or by a group of people (part 2, article 213 of Criminal code of Russian Federation). Six of them are accused in voluntary infliction of health harm committed by a group of people by previous concert toward 2 and more people (points a) and b), of part 3, article 111 of Criminal code of Russian Federation). Two are charged with voluntary infliction of health harm caused by chance the death of the injured (part 4, article 11 of Criminal code of Russian Federation).
Many of the accused don't disclaim their political views and their complicity in nationalist movements, particularly in Nazi-skinheads. They noted during interrogations that the attack was caused by ideological discord with environmentalists. One of accused is a student of East Siberian Institute of Police. During a search his study essay "The mechanism of fascists dictatorship in Germany" was confiscated in his house. His father is a commander of Security Department of Zheleznogorsk's Police department.
Legal analysts of the Interregional Human-Rights Association "AGORA" note that compositions of the courts which consider only cases of minors are occasional occurrence in Russia and that those courts are experiment in some Russian regions.
Juvenal justice is being introduced in Russia since 2000. The juvenal court in Angarsk appeared one of the first in the country. The transfer of the criminal case to such court is caused by the fact that the most of the criminals were minors at the moment of crime.
The case about Nazi's massacre in Angarsk will become not only the show trial on the greatest Nazi's attack of the recent years but also a check of forming juvenal justice in the country, the chairman of the Interregional Human-Rights Association "AGORA", believes Ph.D. in Law Pavel Chikov.
Source: Information Department of the Interregional Human-Rights
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