Court on Nalchik attack case refuses to re-interrogate secret witnesses

Today at the trial on the case about the events in Nalchik on October 13, 2005, held by the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria, defendant Mironov moved a petition to summon again the coded witnesses with pseudonyms "Pushkin", "Tchaikovsky", "Seliverstov" and others, who already evidenced to the court.

Mr Mironov has justified his petition by the opinion that there were essential discrepancies of what the secret witnesses said and what victim Anzor Alkhasov said today in his evidence. The court has rejected the petition.

Witness Anzor Alkhasov, who worked at that time a driver for the special purpose militia unit (known as OMSN), told the court that on October 13, 2005, he was called to the place of his service at about 7 a.m., and the on duty serviceman told him to go in his car to the "Landysh" comradeship of summer cottages.

"I spent there for about an hour; then I was ordered to drive back to the base." The witness said none of the OMSN employees, who were in his car, went far away from the vehicle or approached the settlement. This statement has caused the defendant's petition to re-summon the coded witnesses, other employees of the OMSN, in whose evidences. In his opinion, the opposite was asserted.