Prosecution demands sending Evloev's killer to colony, defence is for acquittal

The Karabulak Court of Ingushetia, which runs the process on the murder case of Magomed Evloev, an oppositionist and the owner of the site "Ingushetia.Ru", plans to announce the verdict on December 11.

The prosecutor's office asks to sentence Ibragim Evloev, former security of the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia, accused of the murder, to two years in colony-settlement; while the defence has asked for an acquittal.

The "Interfax" reports with reference to Yakhya Evloev, father of the perished oppositionist, that it became clear today in the course of judicial debates.

Yakhya has also reminded that his family members had asked the court to send the criminal case to additional investigation. Earlier he said that several important witnesses had failed to appear at the trial. However, the chairing judge asserts that all the measures to notify them had been undertaken, and further attempts are useless, as reported by the Internet resource "Special Letter".

On December 2, out of six witnesses, notified and summoned for interrogation, only two appeared who were interrogated through the closed door for the sake of safety. One of them said that he sat on the right side of Evloev in the car, where he was killed. The witness had a sub-machine gun in his hands, and, according to his story, Magomed Evloev began pulling the weapon out of him.

The witness who was driving the car said that Ibragim Evloev was sitting on the left of Magomed, holding a cocked pistol in his hand. According to this witness, Ibragim turned over "at the moment when Magomed Evloev was trying to pull the sub-machine gun out of his neighbour on the right, and Magomed suddenly hit his head against the pistol." After the announced evidences Yakhya Evloev left the courtroom. "I saw that I had nothing more to do at the trial. If I stayed a bit more, they could have probably imprisoned me just because I gave birth to my son," he said.