Prosecution asks from 6 to 22 years for figurants of Kondopoga disorders

At the Supreme Court of Karelia, the state prosecution has demanded to sentence the main figurants in the case about mass disorders in the city of Kondopoga, natives of Chechnya and Dagestan, to imprisonment for the terms ranging from 6 to 22 years.

The "Caucasian Knot" reported that mass disorders burst out in Kondopoga in the end of August 2006.

As reported by senior assistant of the public prosecutor of Karelia, the prosecution asks to award punishment in the form of imprisonment from 6 to 14 years to Gerikhan Magomadov, Aslanbek Bakanaev, Magomed Kamilov, Magomed Akhmadov and Said-Magomed Edilsultanov, accused of acts of hooliganism and beating people, depending on the actual guilt of each of them.

The punishment to Islam Magomadov, accused of murdering two persons under hooligan intent, was demanded in the form of 22 years of imprisonment with serving the first 5 years in prison, as reported by ITAR-TASS.

None of the defendants has admitted his guilt.

Gerikhan Magomadov spoke about the doubtless political background of the main "Kondopoga case", about the pressure which, in his opinion, was rendered on the court by the authorities of Karelia and mass media. He asserted that only because of the "criminal intention of the investigatory committee" the state prosecution treated them as hooligans, while in fact their presence in the square near the "Chaika" restaurant on that tragic August night was caused by their exclusively peaceful intention to reconcile the people who had quarrelled before. This was reported by the "Vesti.Karelia.Ru".