DUSHANBE, April 11, 2016, Asia-Plus – Tajik Embassy in Moscow has sent a note to the Russian Foreign Ministry over the recent subway incident.
“In its note, the Embassy asks the Russian Foreign Ministry to carry out an impartial investigation into the incident that took place at the Kaluzhskaya subway station in Moscow on April 8,” Sarvar Bakhti, a spokesman for the Tajik Embassy, told Asia-Plus in an interview.
Tajik national Sulaymon Saidov, 38, sustained pneumatic gun wounds to his head at the Kaluzhskaya subway station Friday evening.
“Sulaymon is currently at hospital # 1and physicians assess his health condition as hard,” Sulaymon’s cousin,” Dilshod Abdurahmon told Asia-Plus.
According to him, physicians say Sulaymon needs an operation on his eye, which costs 120,000 Russian rubles.
Dilshod says representatives from the Grazhdanskoyev Sodeystviye (Civil Support) public association have contacted them and promised their help.
The 60-year-old resident of Moscow, Sergey Tsaryov, has been detained on suspicion of firing at Sulaymon Saidov, and criminal proceedings have been instituted against him under the provisions of Article 105 of Russia’s Penal Code – attempted murder.
Meanwhile, Dilshod Abdurahmon says they insist on instituting criminal proceedings against Tsaryov under the provisions of Article 115 of Russia’s Penal Code — inciting national, racial, religious or ethnic hatred.
Russian Investigative Committee reports that Tsaryov fired at Saidov from pneumatic gun following a verbal quarrel.
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