Two updates: one about my eye, and one about the progress of the investigation.
About my eye: I’m back from the hospital (that is, I’ve been going there every day, but today was a business day, so there was also the registration desk, certificates, and official stamps), and the diagnosis remains the same.
A moderate chemical burn to my right eye. The doctor is still convinced that this could not have been just brilliant green antiseptic. It was clearly a mixture of brilliant green and some other caustic liquid. At this point, the eye has lost 80% of its vision. So far, this is not irreversible. I am receiving intensive treatment, and there is hope that I will recover. What would really help me right now, of course, would be being able to travel to one of the specialized clinics in Switzerland or Spain, but as you know, our dear government has been banning me from leaving the country for five years already and refuses to issue me a passport.
My complaint on this matter is pending before the ECHR (European Court of Human Rights), and I will of course win it, since the court explicitly recognized the illegality of such refusals in the case of “Benyash v. Russia” (Mikhail Benyash, by the way, is a member of our Progress Party). But unfortunately, what matters to me here is time, not legal vindication.
About the investigation.
In short: it is not being conducted. That is, it is being actively conducted by volunteers on the internet, who identified two of the attackers (many thanks to everyone for that). But it is not being conducted at all by the police, the Investigative Committee, or anyone else who is supposed to be handling it.
Today we are filing several complaints about the inaction of the law enforcement agencies. This inaction looks especially striking given that the main direct participant has already been identified. His name is everywhere, his photo is everywhere. Journalists are speaking to him by phone. And only the police know nothing.
It is obvious that this inaction amounts, in practice, to helping the attackers. They are being given time to: - go into hiding; - coordinate their stories; - destroy evidence and traces; - and so on.
Over the March 26 rally, the Investigative Committee already has a 150-person investigative task force working on it, but did any of the rally participants do anything even remotely comparable in terms of public danger to splashing someone in the face with brilliant green mixed with acid? Of course not.
But in my case, no one is doing anything at all. The explanation is obvious: suppose you catch them, and they testify that they are innocent, and that the original idea of splashing something in my face from a cup came from a “handler from the Presidential Administration,” while information about my movements was provided by a “handler from the FSB (Federal Security Service).” And then what are you supposed to do with that?
What we know so far:
Two participants in the attack have been definitively identified:
They are Alexei Alexandrovich Kulakov
who also was, or may still be, a police officer:
The direct attacker was Alexander Viktorovich Petrunko:
Here he is with Pyotr Tolstoy, Deputy Speaker of the State Duma from United Russia:
In addition, after carefully analyzing the video, we believe that two more people may have been involved in the attack, but we have not yet been able to establish their identities.
That is why we are publishing their photos and asking for the help of the collective mind. Please help:
UPD: We are removing the photo of the second person. It turned out that he was not involved in the attack.
If you have any information about these two individuals, or about the attack in general, you can send it to us completely anonymously (but without any follow-up) through the black box, or directly to our lawyers (in that case, there can be follow-up) at zhdanov@fbk.info.
Many thanks to everyone for the support, and especially to the activists taking part in the search for these villains.
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