The explosion at the Kotlyakovsky cemetery - a massacre committed on November 10, 1996 in Moscow .
| The explosion at the Kotlyakovsky cemetery in Moscow on November 10, 1996 | |
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| Overview Information | |
| Place of attack | |
| Attack target | A place of mass crowding near the grave of Mikhail Likhodey |
| date of | November 10, 1996 |
| Attack method | An explosion at a crowded place |
| Weapon | Explosive device |
| Dead | fourteen |
| The wounded | 30+ |
| The number of terrorists | 2 |
| The terrorists | Andrey Anokhin and Mikhail Smurov |
Content
- 1 Background
- 2 explosion
- 3 Investigation in both cases
- 4 notes
- 5 Links
Background
The chairman of the Foundation for the Disabled War in Afghanistan, Mikhail Likhodey , at whose grave an explosion occurred at the Kotlyakovsky cemetery , was a well-known public figure. M. Likhodey took this post in the summer of 1994 , succeeding Valery Radchikov . He became famous for the scandalous exposure of the former management of the fund, legalizing criminal proceeds through the fund. Likhodey actively tried to draw the attention of the public and law enforcement agencies to the activities of Radchikov and sought the beginning of his criminal prosecution.
On November 10, 1994, Likhodey, along with his guard, was killed in his house on Orekhovy Boulevard [1] . A bomb with a capacity of 450 grams of TNT was mounted in an intercom in an elevator. The killers detonated a bomb with a command from the radio control, watching the house of Likhodey from the technical floor of a neighboring sixteen-story building. M. Likhodey was buried at the Kotlyakovsky cemetery in Moscow [2] . The killer was arrested only three years later.
Explosion
Two years later, on November 10, 1996, many of his friends and acquaintances gathered at the grave of Likhodey. Among them was the new head of the fund Sergey Trakhirov. A homemade explosive device with a capacity of 2 to 5 kilograms of TNT equivalent was buried in the grave and positioned in such a way that the blast wave , reflected from the surface of the obelisk, would cause maximum damage to those gathered.
During the meeting, a grave explosion occurred at the grave. On the spot, 14 people died and about 30 were injured of varying severity. Among the dead were Trakhirov and the widow of Likhodey, Elena Krasnolutskaya, financial director of the fund. The blast wave scattered fragments around 70 meters. At the site of the explosion, a funnel remained one and a half meters deep and two and a half meters wide.
The investigation of both cases
They could not find the killers of Mikhail Likhodey in hot pursuit, and the case was suspended.
On January 21, 2000, the Moscow District Military Court acquitted Radchikov, Smurov, and Anokhin on all counts of the charges against them, and in April of the same year the military collegium of the Supreme Court of Russia upheld the court decision. On December 13, 2000, the Presidium of the Supreme Court overturned the sentence and sent the case back for a new trial. After this, Anokhin disappeared in an unknown direction.
On January 31, 2001, Radchikov crashed in a car accident on the Minsk highway . The driver of the alleged customer, both the murder of Likhodey and the explosion at his grave, lost control and the car crashed into a truck at high speed.
On August 23, 2001, hearings in the explosion case began in the Moscow City Court [3] . The only defendant was Mikhail Smurov. The trial was interrupted for six months, and the verdict against Smurov was announced only on May 28, 2003 . The court sentenced him to 14 years in prison as an accomplice in an explosion in a cemetery. On November 18, 2003, the Supreme Court of Russia upheld the sentence of Smurov.
On November 13, 2003, Anokhin was detained. In December 2006, Anokhin was sentenced to 15 years in prison, and in May 2007 the sentence against him was left unchanged [4] .
The killer of Mikhail Likhodey, Alexander Khints, who was arrested in 1997 , was sentenced to 15 years in prison in April 2004 [5] [6] , and in 2008 the Moscow City Court sentenced in absentia the identified customer of the murder, Vladimir Lukovsky, to 15 years in prison . In May 2010, the suspect was detained in Ukraine, and in January 2011 extradited to Russia, after which he declared his disagreement with the verdict in absentia [7] .
Notes
- ↑ History of the "Afghan" foundation: splits, bombs, killings . Theme of the day (February 1, 2001). Date of treatment November 30, 2010. Archived on July 5, 2012.
- ↑ Moscow City Court sentenced the murderer of the head of the fund of invalids, “Afghans” to 15 years in prison . Kommersant (11/12/2008). Date of treatment November 30, 2010. Archived on July 5, 2012.
- ↑ Mikhail Tolpegin. The Constitutional Court did not hear the Kotlyakovsky explosion . Independent Newspaper (February 28, 2003). Date of treatment November 30, 2010. Archived on July 5, 2012.
- ↑ The court upheld the verdict in the case of the explosion at the Kotlyakovsky cemetery . RIA Novosti (13:28 05/16/2007). Date of treatment November 30, 2010. Archived on July 5, 2012.
- ↑ The accused in the case of the explosion at the Kotlyakovsky cemetery was given 15 years . Lenta.Ru (12/19/2006, 19:28:28). Date of treatment November 30, 2010. Archived on July 5, 2012.
- ↑ Catherine of Zapodinsky. The killer of Mikhail Likhodey did not know the customer . Kommersant (No. 62 (2901) of 04/07/2004). Date of treatment November 30, 2010. Archived on July 5, 2012.
- ↑ Businessman Vladimir Lukovsky, acquitted in the case of the murder of the leader of the disabled “Afghans” Mikhail Likhodey, was released - Gazeta.Ru | Society
Links
- In MOSCOW, the main topic remains yesterday's explosion at the Kotlyakovsky cemetery.
- Monuments at the site of the explosion at the Kotlyakovsky cemetery.
- Biography Mikhail Likhodey on the site Black Tulip (site)
- Pravda.Ru - Bloody drama at the Kotlyakovsky cemetery
- Michael Specter Cemetery Bomb In Moscow Kills 13 at Ceremony , New York Times (November 11, 1996). Date of treatment March 3, 2012.