Ambush on the Sergiev Posad riot police - an episode during the Second Chechen War . March 2, 2000 at 10:30 am on the outskirts of Grozny, a detachment of riot police from Podolsk and police officers from Yekaterinburg [ clarify ] opened fire on a convoy of riot police from Sergiev Posad , who arrived to change them. As a result, 22 police officers died from " friendly fire " and more than 30 were injured [1] .
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| Main conflict: Second Chechen War | |||
| date | March 2, 2000 | ||
| A place | Podgornoye village, Staropromyslovsky district of Grozny , Chechnya | ||
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Ambush
On March 1, 2000, the Staropromyslovsky Temporary Department of Internal Affairs ( ROVD ) received operational information that in Grozny, through the checkpoint No. 53, on which Podolsk riot policemen stood, an armed convoy of “false Pantelematians” in police uniform would break through. Together with the military commander's office, an ambush was arranged in the village of Podgorny, through which lay the way to the roadblock.
On March 2, a convoy of riot police of the Main Directorate of Internal Affairs of Sergiev Posad, approaching Podgorny, was fired upon by officers of the Staropromyslovsky ROVD. The convoy of Sergiyev Posad fired back, after which it was fired at from the base of the Podolsk riot police. As a result, 22 police officers died (including the commander of the Sergiev-Posad riot squad Dmitry Markelov) and more than 30 were injured [1] .
Investigation and Court
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| The scheme of the defeat of the Sergiev Posad riot police . Archived on February 27, 2013. | |
| Commander of the Sergiyev Posad riot police Dmitry Markelov (center) with colleagues. (1998). Archived on February 27, 2013. | |
| Funeral of riot militiamen killed in Chechnya, Sergiev Posad (March 2000). Archived on February 27, 2013. | |
| General Boris Fadeev and Colonel Mikhail Levchenko . Archived on February 27, 2013. | |
The leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation tried to hide from the public the facts about the incident, giving a friendly fire for a carefully organized action of militants. In particular, these false data were provided to members of the State Duma Security Committee at a special committee meeting on April 6, 2000. Among the speakers were high-ranking officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation: Major General Yu.N. Mikhailov, Senior Consultant of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, First Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Internal Troops B. P. Maksin and Deputy Interior Minister V. I. Fedorov . According to the Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Security Committee of the Russian Federation, Yu. P. Shchekochikhin , the reports of the employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were “impudent lies” [2] .
In 2002, the Prosecutor General’s Office brought three charges under Article 293, Part 2 of the Criminal Code (improper performance of official duties by the officer, which led to serious consequences) to three senior officers responsible for the security of the Sergiyoposadsky OMON: Deputy Head of the Main Directorate of Internal Affairs of the Moscow Region, General to militia major Boris Fadeev, the head of the control group of the joint group of troops in Chechnya, Colonel Mikhail Levchenko, as well as. about. commander of the Podolsk riot police Major Igor Tikhonov. Due to a serious illness, the criminal case of the former deputy commander of the Podolsk riot police, Igor Tikhonov, was suspended. And Boris Fadeev and Mikhail Levchenko were released from punishment (four years in prison) under an amnesty declared in 2000 in connection with the 55th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War [3] .
Then followed new trials. In February 2005, the Supreme Court of North Ossetia upheld the conviction of officers, after which the lawyers filed a supervisory complaint with the presidium of the court. In June, the Presidium of the Supreme Court of North Ossetia upheld the conviction, thus finding them guilty of negligence, which caused grave consequences [3] .
As of 2007, the case of the negligence of General Boris Fadeev and Colonel Mikhail Levchenko was transferred to the Supreme Court [4] .
On February 18, 2013, the former deputy head of the regional Interior Ministry Directorate, Boris Fadeev, was detained on suspicion of major frauds with land plots in the village of Semkhoz, Sergiev-Posadsky municipal district, Moscow region. According to the prosecutor's office of the Moscow region, for registration of the land in the property, he and his accomplices produced fake documents dated 1993, and presented them to the state registration authorities [5] .
See also
- Ambush on a column of the 51st parachute regiment near Serzhen-Yurt
- Ambush on the Perm OMON (2000)
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 For the death of policemen in Chechnya, a general is being tried for the first time. G. Punanov. January 14, 2002.
- ↑ The truth about the death of the Moscow riot police . Novaya Gazeta, No. 21 (March 26, 2001). Archived on February 27, 2013.
- ↑ 1 2 The court upheld the verdict in the case of the death of riot police near Moscow. Lenta.ru (02.06.2005). Archived on February 27, 2013.
- ↑ T. Borisov. The case of riot police in the Supreme Court . Rossiyskaya Gazeta (August 21, 2007).
- ↑ Convicted for the death of riot police General suspected of fraud . Lenta.ru (February 18, 2013). The appeal date is February 18, 2013. Archived February 27, 2013.
Literature
- Militia. Bay their own, so that others were afraid // Special Forces GRU-2. The war is not over, the story continues / S. V. Kozlov. - M .: SPSL - “Russian Panorama”, 2002. - 632 p. - (Essays in recent history). - ISBN 5-93165-064-4 .
Links
- A.Minkin. Alive and dead . Moskovsky Komsomolets (04/25/2003).
- Dead employees on the "Board of Memory" . official site of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate in Moscow region. Archived on February 27, 2013.
- The truth about the death of the Moscow riot police . Novaya Gazeta, No. 21 (March 26, 2001). Archived on February 27, 2013.
- Larisa Kislinskaya. Proceed to the elimination . Top Secret (March 2003). Archived on February 27, 2013.
- CASE OF BAYSAYEVA v. RUSSIA. (eng.) European Court of Human Rights (April 5, 2007). Archived on February 27, 2013.
Video
- Chechnya Blood on uniform. TV channel "Top Secret" (2007).
- On the police in Chechnya: Vladimir Vinogradov. As I went to war in Chechnya.