17 March 2008, 16:43
Relative of woman run over by an APC in North Ossetia claims the accident is premeditated murder
Mustafa Pogorov, uncle of Aishat Pogorova who was run over by an APC in the Prigorodny district of North Ossetia, claims that the incident was a premeditated murder. He stated this on March 14 during the second court session on the case of the road accident, where witnesses were interrogated.
"Witnesses assert that the APC followed Aishat and, having caught up with her, ran her over breaking her skull", claimed Mustafa Pogorov.
During the hearings, five military servants were interrogated as witnesses on the case. They had been in the APC at the moment of the accident. One of them, as he recognized, was sleeping during the accident. Two others claimed that they had been sitting with their backs to the place of the accident and could not see anything. The APC commander told the court that he was shortsighted and had noticed nothing, either.
Only one of the soldiers giving testimony said: "Yes, I saw something dark and some vapour rising from it."
"Something dark and the vapour means Aishat's brain haemorrhage which the soldier saw. But I am sure that he saw my niece's body when he got out of the APC because he had dropped his machine-gun and not because he wanted to see better what the vapour was coming from", said the victim's uncle.
According to him, the APC driver's guilt has been proved by the investigation: "We have four witnesses of Aishat's murder ".
"But we, the relatives, are helpless before the justice and I am afraid that Seitmagabetov may cancel his confession at any moment. It is not true that the driver accidentally ran over my niece while making a manoeuvre. When the APC was driving the road was absolutely clear. Why should he make a manoeuvre?! As the investigation demonstrated, the APC was fully operational", said Pogorov.
Author: Fatima Malsagova, CK correspondent
