Source Part of the investigation into the nationalists was transferred to another region. The Mytishchi City Court of the Moscow Region divided into two parts the criminal case of nationalist Maxim Martsinkevich (Tesak), who died in a pre-trial detention center. Alleged supporters of Tesak, who petitioned for a jury, will be tried in Sergiev Posad, and himself, in absentia and without assessors, in Mytishchi. Nationalists, we recall, are accused by the ICR of a series of murders committed on the basis of ethnic hatred.
As Alexei Mikhalchik, the lawyer for Maxim Martsinkevich's father, told Kommersant, during preliminary hearings in the Mytishchi City Court of the Moscow Region, Judge Maria Loktionova decided to divide the high-profile criminal case into two parts. Defendants Semyon Tokmakov, Aleksandr Lysenkov, Andrey Keil, Maksim Khatulev, Aleksey Gudilin, Pavel Khrulev, and representatives of Maksim Martsinkevich petitioned for a trial of their case with the participation of jurors. However, the judge, relying on the decision of the Constitutional Court, came to the conclusion that while living nationalists have every right to trial by jury, the dead do not. Posada, where, according to the ICR, they committed crimes, and in relation to Tesak, they left it in Mytishchi and will be considered by the judge alone.
At the same time, the victims advocated the termination of his criminal prosecution due to the expiration of the statute of limitations. The mother and sister of the nationalist were not opposed, but the father insisted on holding a trial.
Maxim Martsinkevich, we recall, died in September 2020 in the cell of SIZO No. 3 of the Main Directorate of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in the Chelyabinsk Region. According to the ICR, he committed suicide by making several confessions, in which he spoke about murders and other crimes. The defense, confident that the confessions were preceded by torture, was denied a criminal case.
According to the ICR, in the fall of 2003, Maxim Martsinkevich and his associates committed a double murder in the Smolensk region, then killed two more people in Sergiyevo -Posadsky urban district and the national park “Losiny Ostrov”, located in Mytishchi. In Mytishchi in 2007, a native of Dagestan and another person, whose identity was not established, became victims of nationalists: a video of the execution was published on social networks. It was the brother of the deceased Dagestani who proposed to drop the case, obviously realizing that the jury could find an excuse for Tesak as well. By the way, the Mytishchi court, as Kommersant already reported, sentenced Maxim Aristarkhov and Sergei Marshakov in a special order for this crime, appointing them, taking into account the previous terms, 16 and 17 years in strict regime colonies, respectively. At the same time, the former nationalists expected that for cooperation with the investigation, their criminal prosecution would be terminated due to the expiration of the statute of limitations.
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