28 March 2008, 13:46
Azerbaijani citizen assassinated in St-Petersburg
On March 26, the body of a citizen of Azerbaijan, aged 33, was found in the Krasnogvardeiskiy District of St-Petersburg.
"The body was found in the forest par zone in the Piskaryovskiy Avenue. Stab and slash wounds were detected on the victim's neck," a source in the law enforcement bodies of the city has informed. The foreigner was temporarily registered in St-Petersburg.
The criminal case was initiated under Article 105 of the Criminal Code of Russia ("Murder"), the "Interfax" reports, noting that seven murders have been committed in St-Petersburg from the start of the year (four of them - in March), and operative agents suspect national hostility as their motive.
According to Radio Liberty, yesterday, on March 27, the report was presented of the Human Rights Board of the city on the situation with human rights in St-Petersburg, in which one of the largest sections is on "violations of human rights on motives of racial hatred". Secretary of the Board Natalia Evdokimova has expressed her indignation with inactivity of law enforcement bodies: "Isn't it really difficult to find the place, where these monsters rally, who continue, while hiding behind their fantastic nationalistic ideas, murdering people only because they have different skin colour and different face oval?!"
