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On February 26 of this year, blogger Tumsu Abdurachmanov woke up at his home in Gävle with a severe blow to the head. A man sitting across from him on the bed attacked him with a hammer.
He was injured in the head, but managed to stay conscious and dominate his attacker. In a bloody video that Abdurachmanov posted on his channels, he later made the man admit that he came from Moscow.
Images shown in court Monday showed heavy blood splatters in the bedroom where the attack took place, and the alleged attacker was seen lying on the floor next to the bed with his hands bandaged behind his back. Much of the blood came from him.
“It is the actors with connections to the Chechen leadership who have not only had the motive, the resources and the ability to carry out this operation, but have also had the purpose of knocking out Tumsu Abdurachmanov once and for all.” said prosecutor Per Lindqvist in his case presentation in district court. Monday.
Darkness Abdurachmanov It is according to the assistant to your applicant, Jens Sjölund, one of the biggest Chechen critics of the regime that exists today.
“As far as we know, there is a bounty on his head, even after the act,” Sjölund said in court.
The man accused of carrying out the attack is a Russian citizen in his 30s and, according to the prosecutor, must have been hired by people linked to the regime in Chechnya to assassinate the critic of the regime.
The man was initially silent during questioning, but then decided to start talking.
– Now he prefers to let everyone know, in the hope that it can save his life, said his lawyer Gustaf Andersson in district court.
The man has applied for asylum in Sweden according to the Dublin Regulation. He denies attempted murder but admits to aggravated battery, according to the lawyer.
Andersson says his client repeatedly told his clients, primarily an identified man who is in custody in his absence, that he did not intend to carry out the attack. But in the end he didn’t dare to say no.
“There was no place to reject the instructions given to him,” he said, referring to the notorious violent capital of the Chechen regime.
However, he never intended to assassinate the blogger, according to the defense.
– He has decided to “simply” hurt him and flee the place and then say that he failed in his mission. That’s what has happened, Andersson said.
Besides the accused man a woman in her 30s, also a Russian citizen, for her participation in the attack. She is accused of being an accessory to an assassination attempt and, according to the prosecutor, had started a relationship with Abdurachmanov in order to help in the attack.
It is suspected that she shared photos of her home with other people and that she let the attacker into the apartment when the attack took place.
The woman denies the crime.
According to the prosecutor, The assassination attempt is based on criticism leveled by the blogger against Achmat Kadyrov, former President of the Chechen Republic and father of the current president, Ramzan Kadyrov.
Criticism led the Speaker of the Chechen Parliament to declare a “blood revenge” against Abdurachmanov in March 2019. The 20-minute film posted on the president’s social media accounts was screened in its entirety Monday in the district court. .
Tumsu Abdurachmanov tells TT that the blood dispute is the reason the assassination attempt took place.
– This happened because, as a blogger, I criticize the Russian regime in Chechnya, he says.
Are you still worried about your safety?
– Yes, it’s me.
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