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| Fighter of PMC 'Wagner' convicted of shooting at police in Novoshakhtinsk |
| 2023-12-19 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [KavkazUzel] The court sentenced the former fighter of the Wagner PMC Pavel Nikolin to a term in a colony, having found him guilty of an armed attack on police officers in Novoshakhtinsk. As "Caucasian Knot" wrote, in October the trial began in the Rostov Regional Court in the case of a 38-year-old former soldier of the Wagner PMC Pavel Nikolina. He was accused of threatening to use violence against a government official, attempt on the life of a security officer and illegal possession of weapons and ammunition. On December 9, 2022, it became known that the suspect in the shooting at police officers in Novoshakhtinsk, Pavel Nikolin was placed in custody. At the same time, he explained the shooting at security forces by confusing them with Ukrainian military personnel. The Rostov Regional Court sentenced Pavel Nikolin to six years and 11 months in prison, TASS reports today. “The court decided to find Nikolin guilty and sentence him to imprisonment for a term of 6 years 11 months,” the agency quotes the judge. Earlier, a panel of jurors convicted Nikolin, the publication notes. Let us remind you that, according to investigators, on December 6, 2022, police officers were looking for a missing woman. Not far from Novoshakhtinsk, they came across Nikolin in the fields, who opened fire on them from a light machine gun. One security officer was injured. Nikolin was detained the next day in the Krasnosulinsky district on an abandoned farm. |
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