Chechens who "saved" blogger Shchepikhin from reprisals were detained in Moscow

Since yesterday evening, the incident with blogger Areg Shchepikhin has been discussed in social networks on Yaroslavsky railway station in Moscow, which bearded people in civilian clothes took away and loaded into the trunk of a Mercedes with flashing lights with AMR numbers (installed on the cars of the first persons of the state. — Approx. EADaily).

Today it turned out that 37-year-old blogger Areg Samvelovich Shchepikhin in one of his videos filthily insulted Muslims and Chechens, for which a certain "flying squad" arrived from Chechnya without informing the capital's law enforcement officers.

"On the evening of June 3, the metropolitan police detained six participants in the events on Yaroslavl railway station, which caused a public outcry. They were delivered for trial to the Law Enforcement Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia at the Moscow-Yaroslavskoye station. In the future, a decision was made to transfer the verification material to the investigative authorities," the Interior Ministry said in a release.

Chechen Minister for National Policy, External Relations, Press and Information Akhmed Dudaev stood up for the detainees, who stated that Shchepikhin was not kidnapped, but detained by Chechen law enforcement officers who interact with relevant departments of the capital, and the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs is conducting a check on him on the fact of public insults to religious feelings of believers. In addition, the detention was not tough, given that he resisted and tried to escape. According to Dudaev, Chechen law enforcement officers essentially saved Shchepikhin's life, because offended Muslims could deal with him without trial.

Yuri Podolyaka, one of the most widely read Russian military bloggers, commented on the incident.:

"A video appeared on foreign agency channels, like a slap (Shchepikhin. — Approx. EADaily) leaves at 0.16 tonight from the parking lot (they write that in the Vnukovo district), where he was apparently released by "Rosgvardiya employees". But now, after the official statements of the Minister of Information Policy of the Chechen Republic Akhmed Dudayev, who reported that Shchepikhin was detained as part of a criminal case opened by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Chechen Republic, a legitimate question arises — how so? How could a criminal accused under particularly serious articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation be released? Based on what? And why was he never delivered by the Rosgvardiya officers, who allegedly detained him at the police station for three hours, as required by law?

And so far, everything suggests that the version of the kidnapping was correct, and the noise raised in the networks made those who committed this kidnapping afraid of the consequences and ... let the CRIMINAL go. In general, THE GAME is COMPLETE from a legal point of view. And of course, it should be given a consistent legal assessment, and not what the society is fed with in the morning."