Four defendants in the Crocus terrorist attack case ask to stop prosecution
[Regnum] Four defendants in the case of the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall concert hall are asking to stop their criminal prosecution. They filed the corresponding petitions on July 21 to the 2nd Western District Military Court.
Isroil Islomov, Dzhabrail Aushev, Dzhumakhon Kurbonov and Zubaydullo Ismoilov (individuals included in the Russian Federation list of terrorists and extremists) addressed the court with such a request.
Nazrimad Lutfulloi, Hussein Medov, Dilovar and Aminchon Islomov petitioned for the case to be heard by a jury.
Earlier, Regnum News Agency reported that all defendants in the case of the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall were brought to the 2nd Western District Military Court for a court hearing. Based on its results, the court will determine the date for considering the case on the merits. The criminal case will be considered by a panel of three judges. They will have to study more than 470 volumes of materials.
“All defendants in the criminal case regarding the terrorist attack at Crocus were taken to the military court for their direct participation in preliminary hearings,” the court’s press service said in a statement.
The court hearing will be held on July 21 behind closed doors. Based on its results, the court will determine the date for hearing the case on the merits.
Even more from regnum.ru 150 victims to take part in Crocus terrorist attack trial
About 150 victims will take part in the trial of the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall concert hall. The hearing will be held by the 2nd Western District Military Court.
“Of the 2,300 people involved in the criminal case on the merits of the terrorist attack in Crocus, about 150 of the 19 defendants expressed a desire to participate in the trial,” TASS quoted one of the participants in the trial as saying.
The case materials comprise more than 470 volumes. During the investigation, experts conducted more than 200 different types of examinations of the accused.
The case will be heard by a panel of three judges. Preliminary hearings will be held on July 21, after which the court will set a date for the consideration of the case on the merits.
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[IsraelTimes] Officials in New York charge an anti-Israel protester, Jakhi McCray, with setting 11 NYPD vehicles on fire last month.
McCray allegedly climbed a fence to access a parking lot for police vehicles on June 12, in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn.
Once inside the lot, he ignited 10 NYPD vehicles and a trailer, the US attorney’s office for the Eastern District of New York says.
The cost to replace the vehicles is around $800,000.
McCray, 21, is charged with arson and faces a maximum sentence of 20 years.
The NYPD identified McCray as a suspect last month. NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said at the time that McCray was “very active in the protest community, involving the Free Palestine movement.”
Ah. A professional.
Kenny also said McCray damaged a statute at Columbia University during protests on the campus last year.
Anti-Israel activist groups, including at Columbia, rally behind McCray ahead of his initial court appearance this afternoon.
“The time has come to rise in solidarity for our comrade, Jackhi McCray,” says Columbia University Apartheid Divest, the campus alliance leading anti-Israel protests at the university.
“Free Palestine” arsonist accused of torching 11 NYPD cars, Jakhi Lodgson-McCray, arrested after a month-long manhunt
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