All-Nation Meeting Organization Committee Chairman Magomed Khazbiev, right, doesn’t believe in the accidental killing of Ingushetia.ru owner Magomed Evloev, left.
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Ingushetia’s Opposition Leader Didn’t Survive Bullet Meeting
Owner of opposition Ingushetia.ru web, Magomed Evloev was killed in Ingushetia yesterday, August 31, 2008, soon after the police detained him in Magas airport. The official explanation is that a policeman shot Evloev by accident, when the latter attempted to pull out a gun from him. But the opposition in Ingushetia insists it was the intended killing and threatens to set to collecting signatures for withdrawing from Russia if the murder isn’t properly investigated.
Evloev, who had been mostly staying in Western Europe recently, had decided to fly home for a day. He was to return Monday. According to Evloev’s mate and All-Nation Meeting Organizational Committee Chairman Magomed Khazbiev, the jet of Moscow-Ingushetia flight with Evloev aboard landed at 1:30 p.m. Of interest is that Ingushetia’s President Murat Zyazikov was in the same plane.
Zyazikov, who was the first to descend, stepped into one of the cars waiting for him near the airstairs. “In a few minutes after the departure of president’s motorcade, another cavalcade of armored cars drove up to the plane – two UAZ cars and four Volgas. Armed to-the-teeth policemen poured out of the cars. Interior Minister Musa Medov was among them. Having seen Magomed Evloev, the policemen went for him to drag into the UAZ,” Khazbiev said.
It was the action-thriller then. Relatives and friends of Evloev rushed to rescue him, breaking glass doors and pushing away airport guards, to no avail though. The police fired down a few bursts and escaped with Evloev by emergency route.
After leaving the airport, the police divided into two groups, the first heading for Troitskoe village, and the second moving to the Caucasus road, towards Nazran. The opposition followed the Nazran lead, supposing Evloev would be put into detention facilities there.
They caught up with the police near the turn to Nazran, cutting two Volgas from the motorcade by ramming. But Evloev wasn’t there. The opposition fighters pulled policemen out of the cars, beat them and took away their guns and identity papers. “No blood on us; this is none of our doing,” the frightened policemen were crying.
It emerged later on that they were speaking of Magomed, who had been killed in the car, Khazbiev said.
The activists drove to Nazran in the next effort to attack the police there. But it made no sense, as Evloev that had been deathly wounded in the airport was in the resuscitation department of the Central Hospital of Nazran. He was operated, but the operation didn’t save him.
A criminal case was opened on count of reckless killing, spokesman of the RF prosecutors announced yesterday, specifying that the accident happened in the police car en route to the police station.
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