MIA checks families of defendants sentenced in case of attack on Nalchik

In Kabardino-Balkaria, inspectors of the juvenile police are engaged in checking families with children of the defendants sentenced in the case of the attack on Nalchik. The checks also affected the families in which at least one parent followed the Salafi concept of Islam. The people who are visited by the police inspectors fear that their children will be included in the prevention registration lists. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), children of followers of radical concepts of Islam are not enlisted for preventive registration.

The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by Fatima Tekaeva, the mother of Rasul Kudaev, who had been sentenced to life imprisonment in the case of the attack on Nalchik, she was visited by police inspectors on September 12. Fatima Tekaeva has explained that she cares of two minor granddaughters from her eldest son.

According to the press service of the MIA for the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), police inspectors visit the people to determine the living conditions of the children whose fathers are sentenced to imprisonment or whose parents are divorced. For the above purpose, the MIA's officials are engaged in "monitoring of the living conditions of minors and socio-economic level of single-parent families."

The children from the above mentioned families receive moral and psychological support, and they are sent for vacation during the summer season. Before the start of the school year, material assistance was to provide low-income families, the MIA's letter reports.

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