Karastelyov: at confrontation attacker said that he wanted to help

The detainee, suspected of attacking Vadim Karastelyov, an expert of the Novorossisk Committee on Human Rights and representative of Alexei Dymovskiy, former Major of Novorossisk militia, asserts that he just tried to help, while the human rights activist beat him with a wooden block. According to Karastelyov, the suspect gave this evidence in the course of confrontation.

Let us remind you that law enforcement bodies managed to detain one attacker on Karastelyov eight on the day of the incident. He was an earlier convicted Vladimir Tender, born in 1971, an individual entrepreneur from Novorossisk.

Yesterday, on March 10, Mr Tender was released under recognizance not to leave.

"On March 9, at confrontation, I listened to the story in Tender's interpretation: according to his version, he didn't beat me but ran up to help. And it was I, who struck him with a block. And he just had a noble intention to help me," Mr Karastelyov told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

"The point is that under Article 51 of the Constitution he has the right not to evidence against himself, and that's what he did. However, the UVD (Interior Department) of Novorossisk had already disseminated its official statement that Tender, allegedly, beat me out of his personal enmity; although there's nothing about it in the materials of the case. That is, the official statement of the UVD contradicts the materials of the case, as the suspect and his lawyer now evidence and write everywhere that he had run up to help me when saw that I was beaten," said the human rights activist.

Vadim Karastelyov asserts that his eyewitnesses are evidencing that two persons were beating him. "But evidences were taken by militiamen illiterately, and, consequently, now the inspector will have to interrogate everyone anew," he has stated. "Besides, law enforcers failed to interrogate the most important witness, a lady, who stood 3 meters away from me; her evidences are absent, and, accordingly, she wasn't present at the confrontation to identify the culprit."