01 June 2007, 17:16
Moscow Regional Court acquits the convict accused of murdering Armenian refugee from Azerbaijan
The Jury of the Moscow Regional Court has acquitted Roman Polusmyak who was accused of murdering Arthur Sardaryan, 19, a refugee from Azerbaijan, on the motive of national hostility. Despite the fact that two eyewitnesses have directly evidenced that defendant Polusmyak gave knife wounds to the victim, the jurymen believed not them but to the defendant's friends who asserted that the latter had been with them all the time on that evening.
According to the investigation, Arthur Sardaryan's murder was committed on May 25, 2006, at 11:00 p.m. in the electric train running from Moscow to Sofrino. When the train stopped at the station of Klyazma, Mr. Sardaryan was attacked by two offenders. They turned on the emergency brake handle, and then shouting "Fame to Russia!" struck several times the victim's neck and breast with a knife.
The "Caucasian Knot" has informed earlier that the perished Arthur Sardaryan lived in the town of Pushkino near Moscow for the last 17 years together with his mother - the refugee family had left Azerbaijan after the Armenian pogroms.
However, Roman Polusmyak was not released from custody, since shortly before the start of this trial he was condemned to two years of imprisonment for hooliganism - he and his acquaintances had beaten a man in the station of Malenkovskaya.
