19-year-old Vekil Abnulayev was taken to a hospital in Novosibirsk, where he was shot by a traffic policeman on May 29 while trying to arrest him, writes the Novaya Gazeta newspaper, which has posted a video of the tragic ending of the young man from Azerbaijan.
The journalist of the newspaper Aliona Istomina, who visited the village of Moskovo outside the place where the tragedy took place, describes that in this village friends of the young Azeros and police gathered to protect the family of the policeman as they feared retaliation.
This tragic incident first became known on May 29, when the most popular website “ACT-54” posted a video, in which Vekil is seen exchanging insults with the police and then lying in a pool of blood. The video was taken by a friend, who recorded on camera how the police arrest them and try to put them in the patrol car.
The video shows the traffic police leading to the patrol a man, who resists, shouting “he does the same to me”. The one who shoots their video follows. Suddenly Vakil goes to help the man whom the police have already put in the car.
There, the policeman is heard shouting at Vekil “crumple from here, pig; on the ground, tomari”, hugging him and throwing him on the hood of the car.
It was later revealed that the video shows 38-year-old Lieutenant Alexander Gusev. At that point the man shooting the video turns off the camera, but according to all indications the man continued to shoot for a few more seconds. That is why the second video shows the policeman holding Vekil while he is collapsing.
“You threw him, you threw him, you idiot,” shouts the man who records his friend’s face and the blood flowing on the patrol car.
The policeman, frightened, looks at Vequil’s face, kneels and puts the revolver in his holster. He then lifts the 19-year-old, whose body slips from his hands. The very moment of the shooting in the video has not been recorded.
Hours later, as the video caught the media’s attention, the Interior Ministry reported the situation, while the Regional Commission of Inquiry prosecuted Gusev for causing negligent harm and abuse of power through the use of force.
