01 February 2007, 22:41
Case on mass beating of citizens by "OMON" in Sochi delivered to court
The Office of Public Prosecutor of the Krasnodar Territory has delivered to the court the criminal case on accusation of a group of "OMON" (Special Militia) officers of excess of official powers with application of violence in relation to a big group of peaceful citizens, including minors, who violently beaten by militiamen in July last year when conducting a clean-up ("zachistka") in the children's rehabilitation camp "Druzhba" (Friendship), located in the settlement of Makopse.
Charges were presented to 8 militiamen, 7 of them are already in custody.
The "Caucasian Knot" has already informed that on July 16, two "OMON" agents had a conflict with the campers in Sochi in the "Oasis" cafe located in the territory of the "Druzhba" children's camp in settlement Nizhneye Makopse of the Lazarevskiy District, as a result of which the fighters were beaten. Two days later, a group of "OMON" soldiers - about 50 persons in camouflage, armour vests, masks and with automatic guns - rushed into the camp, beat a security guard, and crushed down the "Oasis" cafe. A group of beaten people was brought, without explaining any reasons, to the local Interior Department ("ROVD") and tortured there.
