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Russian historian Oleg Sokolov, author of a crime that shocked public opinion, was sentenced on Friday to 12 and a half years in prison in Saint Petersburg, report AFP and Reuters, assumed by Agepres. He admitted that he killed and dismembered his life partner, a former student nearly 40 years his junior, following a marriage scandal.
Oleg Sokolov “was fully aware of his actions at the time of the assassination,” Judge Yulia Maksimenko said when announcing the verdict in a court in the former Russian imperial capital.
However, the historian’s defense expressed its “disagreement” with the established sanction, pointing out that it has not yet been resolved through a possible appeal.
The historian, who pleaded guilty, had been on trial since early June for murder and possession of a weapon. Oleg Sokolov, a professor of history at St. Petersburg State University and a specialist on Napoleon, was arrested on November 10, 2019.
He was drunk from the Moika River and the police found two female arms and an alarm pistol in his backpack. Later other pieces of the victim’s body were found in another river.
The 63-year-old historian was quick to admit that he killed and dismembered one of his former students, Anastasia Eschenko, 24, with whom he shared his life.
He said he committed the crime by mistake by shooting him “to end a wave of insults” during a dispute, according to the RIA Novosti news agency.
The victim’s lawyers claimed that the man premeditated his act.
The Russian prosecutor’s office had demanded 15 years in prison against him.
Millions of Russian women victims of domestic violence
Extremely respectable, the St. Petersburg State University was accused of inertia, in the context in which Oleg Sokolov had already been accused of violence.
The case resonated in Russia. Several associations considered it a new illustration of the violence to which women are subjected. Russia decriminalized domestic and domestic violence in 2017 in most cases, and the change was supported by President Vladimir Putin.
Every year, nearly 16.5 million women are victims of domestic violence in Russia, according to data established by activists before the pandemic.
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