Relatives of the militants who perished in Kabardino-Balkaria fail to sue Savrulin and Shepel

In reply to their appeal to the General Prosecutor's Office with a demand to bring Alexei Savrulin, head of the investigatory group of the Russian General Prosecutor's Office for the South Federal District (SFD), to criminal liability, relatives of the perished militants received a response from the Chief Investigatory Department for the SFD.

The response runs that after studying the appeal "about alleged access of official powers committed by employees of the prosecutor's, it has been established that the appeal was expressing a disagreement with the decisions made by the employees of the prosecutor's office. The assumption of their malfeasances was not justified and contains no data about any crime attributes envisaged by Article 286 of the Russian Criminal Code (excess of official powers), which would need examination."

The response is also stating that the quoted in the appeal "selective and voluntarily treated references to different points of the Statement of the Russian Constitutional Court under the complaint of Karmova, E. Kh., and Guziev, K. I., cannot be recognized as properly justified."

The parents who had signed the appeal find this response to be just formal, indicating the unwillingness to lawfully consider the case and bring those guilty to responsibility. They assert that the response gives no answer to the facts presented in the appeal.