Editorial board of "Corruption and Crime" wants to punish the attacker on journalist in Rostov

The collective of the newspaper "Corruption and Crime" is conducting its own investigation into the attack in Rostov-on-Don on journalist Vyacheslav Yaroshenko and plans to punish the culprit without involving the militia. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Sergey Sleptsov, deputy editor-in-chief of the edition, who complained of inactivity of law enforcers.

"I'll not hurry up to file an application to the militia. It's senseless, they'll only hide the crime," said Mr Sleptsov.

The journalist told about the events that preceded the attack on Yaroshenko.

"I said goodbye to Yaroshenko in the evening; we just received the circulation of the new issue of the paper. At daybreak, I learned about what happened," Mr Sleptsov said to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

As of 8:30 a.m. on that day, militia reports gave no information about the incident. "Later we learnt that at night Yaroshenko was delivered to hospital by an ambulance. He was found by some occasional passer-by who called the ambulance. And on the next day, Colonel Polianskiy, head of the press service of the Department of Internal Affairs, rushed calling me, convincing that they had already found half a million witnesses, who know for sure that Yaroshenko fell down from a staircase by himself," said Sergey Sleptsov.

However, according to Mr Sleptsov, a criminalist by education, the traumas received by Yaroshenko, are impossible, when someone fall down from the staircase.