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| Russians forced to live alongside murderers as Wagner ex-convicts return home |
| 2023-09-12 |
| [Telegraph UK] When Anya Pekareva heard that an 85-year-old woman had been murdered in Vyatskiye Polyany, a small town over 500 miles from Moscow that is home to some of her relatives, she thought it an odd coincidence. Two days later, her parents told her that the woman was her grandmother, who had been murdered by an ex-convict who returned home to the village after fighting in Ukraine with the notorious Wagner mercenary group. Ms Peskareva, a 36-year-old nurse from St Petersburg, reacted to the news so strongly that her parents feared she would stage a protest against the war, risking arrest and criminal charges. "After Grandma’s killing, I just drew the line with friends. I said: ’Everyone who supports the war is guilty of my Grandma’s murder’," she told The Telegraph. The murder of Yulia Buiskikh in March was the first of many carried out by ex-convict fighters returning home to Russia. "It was the first case of its kind. But now I’m tired of reposting news about other cases," said Ms Pekareva. Across the country, Russians are now living with convicted murderers and rapists in their midsts — a disastrous consequence of Vladimir Putin’s decision to replenish his forces by recruiting fighters from prisons. Four days before Ms Pekareva’s grandmother was killed, local television ran a six-minute news bulletin saying that a local man, previously sentenced to 14 years for killing another woman, had returned home to the nearby village of Novy Burets and "a quiet life". The villagers, mostly elderly women wrapped in shawls and winter coats, packed a local community centre at which the police chief tried to address their concerns. The young man made his presence known in the village early on, staggering through the streets with "a bottle of beer in one hand, a pitchfork in another" and yelling: "I’m going to kill you all." |
| Posted by:Enver Slager8035 |
| #2 ^ Like all things leftist, that's different. No comparison at all. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-09-12 12:23 |
| #1 Funny. Newsom lets violent criminals out of jail in California all the time, many of them are illegal aliens, and then they go on to commit even more violent crimes against innocent citizens. But I don't see the Telegraph making a big deal of it. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2023-09-12 12:19 |