Sochi: local residents demand to punish Moscow officer for abusing them

Residents of Sochi Nuriet and Zarema Achmizova have lodged a complaint to the military public prosecutor of the Sochi garrison against Roman Nistratov who had humiliated, in their opinion, the national dignity of local residents of Golovinka settlement and members of Sochi national minority - Shapsugs (Adygs).

Their complaint reports that on July 11, at 2:40 p.m., in the centre of Golovinka, Lazarevskoe District of Sochi, near the shop that belongs to the applicants, Roman Nistratov (a Lieutenant Colonel of a military unit in Moscow) scattered the goods received by the shop to free room for parking his car. He accompanied his actions by obscene words addressed to the shop owners.

Nuriet Achmizovа tried reacting saying: "How can you afford doing it?" The answer was full of indecent words, of which the applicants could quote only this: "I do whatever I want! You're no peer to me, you're black."

The eyewitnesses of the incident tried to espouse the women and, in particular, advised to call the militia. To this, according to the women, the lieutenant colonel responded that he was an FSB officer and that he "is above the law and can do everything… Militia can't enforce me, and in my own bureau everything is 'locked'."

The applicants ask the military public prosecutor to take measures to Nistratov, as, in their opinion, his behaviour dishonours the title of a military.

The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed by the local district militiaman Vladimir Zhidkomlinskiy that applications were filed by both parties; however, he would not say, what the accusations moved by the lieutenant colonel against the women were. He just said that the facts are checked.