A resident of Krasnodar region suspected of an attempt of murder on ethnic hatred grounds

Committee of Inquiry accuses an eighteen-years-old resident of Krasnodar of an attempt of killing a sixteen-years-old ethnic Armenian on ethnic hatred grounds.

According to the investigation’s version, after the murder of football fan Yegor Sviridov in Moscow in December, 2010, A. Potemin suggested his friends to beat up people of “non-Slavic appearance” and distributed medical masks among the participants of his group.

On December, 13, 2010, in the courtyard of one of the houses at the crossroads of Krasnaya and Gavrilov streets a group of young people armed with bats attacked two sixteen-years-old passers-by and started beating them.

When one of the aggrieved shouted out that he was Russian the attackers stopped beating him but went on beating an Armenian schoolboy, ethnic Armenian Bagrat Astaryan. According to the investigation’s version, A. Potemin stubbed the Armenian teenager with a knife, web-site of the Investigative Department of Committee of Inquiry of the Russian Federation in Krasnodar region reports.

The aggrieved received opportune medical aid and survived, web-site of Informational and Analytic Center “SOVA” reports.