January 29th 2003 ·
Prague Watchdog
Night sentries in Grozny’s Zavodskoi district
Timur Aliyev, North Caucasus – Since January 23, night sentries patrol in
the Zavodskoi district of Grozny. The head of the district’s administration
Musa Alaudinov announced that this measure was undertaken after the residents
of one of the buildings in the Roza Luxembourg street were beaten up and robbed.
According to information of human rights center Memorial, in the night between
January 13 and 14, unidentified armed persons in three armoured vehicles and a
car dragged the inhabitants of building No. 25 out in the street, made them
lie on the ground and robbed all flats. When leaving, they took three men and
a mother of two, 33-year-old Anzhela Shakhmurzayeva, with them.
On January 14, the district’s special task force, comprising representatives
of the court, Federal Security Service (FSB), military and administration drew
up a plan of night patrolling in the district and defined the tasks and appropriate
measures to be taken, said Alaudinov.
The prosecutor’s office in the Zavodskoi district announced that the investigation
of the crime is now under a strict control of the leaders f the prosecutor’s
office of the Chechen Republic. Chechen police say that an investigation group
as well as all forces of the district police have been involved in
the investigation since the morning of January 14.