Nalchik residents honour memory of victims of militants’ attack on city

Participants in the mourning rallies honoured the memory of law enforcers and civilians killed 19 years ago during a militants’ attack on Nalchik.

The “Caucasian Knot” has reported that on October 13, 2005, an armed attack on Nalchik took place, in which, according to the investigators’ version, at least 250 militants under the command of Shamil Basaev took part. As a result, 35 law enforcers and 15 civilians perished, and 95 militants were killed.

A memorial rally was held in the Police Square near the memorial to the defenders of the Motherland in Nalchik, the “RIA Kabardino-Balkaria” news agency reports. The names of 35 killed law enforcers were read out, after which participants of the rally laid flowers at the memorial.

A mourning rally was also held in the regional department of the Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN), whose employees paid tribute to the memory of five colleagues killed in the militant’s attack 19 years ago.

Abu Kashezhev, whose daughter Elina Shikova, an employee of the criminal executive inspection, was shot and killed by militants at the OVD (Interior Department) building, spoke at the rally.

Let us remind you that all defendants in the case on the militants’ attack on Nalchik were found guilty by the court. Five of them, including Anzor Mashukov, Eduard Mironov, Aslan Kuchmenov, Murat Bapinaev, and Rasul Kudaev, were sentenced to life imprisonment, and the rest defendants were sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from 10 to 23 years.