A trial on the case of an act of terror started in Stavropol

On October, 3, a trial against a twenty-one-years old native of Dagestan Cherkes Rustamov accused of committing an act of terror near a recreation center in Stavropol in May, 2010, before a concert of “Vainakh” pop group, started in Stavropol regional court.

Eight persons perished as a result of terror and over 50 were wounded. On September, 6, 2011, investigation referred the criminal case on the fact of terror to court.

It appears from the indictment that Rustamov is accused according to clauses “terrorism”, “attempt at law enforcement personnel” and “illegal explosives traffic”.

According to the investigation, Rustamov committed the act of terror together with natives of Dagestan Farid Misriev and Abibulla Abdullaev. Abdullaev made an explosive device and Misriev laid it. They were both killed: Misriev in a special operation in June, 2010, and Abdullaev during an attempt of robbing a shop in Stavropol in September of the same year.

Before the beginning of the session Rustamov demanded that there would be no journalists in the courtroom. “He refused to come out by himself in order to be taken to the courtroom by a convoy using his constitutional right to avoid video, photo or audio recording by journalists. Therefore journalists were not allowed to be present in the courtroom”, RIA “Novosti” quotes Press secretary of the court Violetta Bondareva.

At the beginning of the trial the defendant’s attorney Sergey Yevdokimov declared that Rustamov did not acknowledge himself guilty, “Interfax” reports.