those detained in the case were asked about the attempt on Simonyan

The detained teenagers, who, according to the investigation, were preparing an attempt on RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan and journalist Ksenia Sobchak, were questioned by the police. Unnamed eyewitnesses of the incident told “Mediazone” about this.

In particular, the interlocutor of the publication said that 18-year-old Mikhail Balashov, whom the FSB calls “the creator of the neo-Nazi group “Paragraph 88”, was severely beaten, forcing incriminating statements out of him. According to him, after this Balashov was shaking and “couldn’t put two words together.”

The interlocutor of “Mediazony” also told about the torture of the second detainee, 22-year-old Egor Saveliev. “[Били] so that he yelled at the entire premises, at the entire department, at the entire building,” the source said. He also claims that he heard the words of one of the policemen that Savelev was being questioned with an electric shock.

Another eyewitness, who saw several other detainees in the department, claims that they were also beaten.

• On July 15, the FSB reported the detention of members of a “neo-Nazi group” in Moscow and the Ryazan region on suspicion of preparing an attempt on Simonyan and Sobchak. After that, the Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested seven suspects, however, not on charges of plotting an attempt, but on charges of hooliganism. According to the court’s version, the arrested “as part of an organized group of hooligans, motivated by national hatred, with particular cynicism and impudence committed attacks on foreign citizens.”
• Earlier, The Insider, referring to a representative of the neo-Nazi association NS/WP, wrote that the detainees were “interrogated with electric shocks and strangled.”