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February 1 | Photo: Jonas Ekströmer / TT
Chechen regime critic Tumsu Abdurachmanov outside the security room at Attunda District Court on the first day of Monday’s hearing. Stock Photography.
The Chechen critic of the regime was attacked with a hammer while sleeping in his apartment in Gävle. In district court, he describes a long and bloody fight for his survival.
– Either I would die or I would get to dominate it, he says.
According to the prosecutor, this is a failed orderly assassination of Chechnya.
Tumsu Abdurachmanov had been up all night to edit movie clips for his Youtube channel, and only when the sun started to rise in Gävle on the morning of February 26 did he go to bed.
At the same time that Abdurachmanov, a well-known blogger and critic of the Russian regime in Chechnya, was going to bed, the woman leaving him had a relationship with the bed.
According to the prosecutor, the woman had started the relationship with Abdurachmanov to help with the attack against him. She denies the crime but is charged with aiding and abetting the attempted murder, including the suspicion of letting the man with the hammer into the apartment.
– My next memory is when I wake up with a strong blow to the head. It is the defendant who is sitting on me, says Abdurachmanov in the Attunda District Court.
Hammer blow
It was a long time before he understood that the man in the bed had a hammer, and Abdurachmanov was initially only able to try to make amends with violence, he says.
– There were strong blows that made me feel confused.
At one point, he managed to grab the man’s hair and put his thumb in his eye. Through a flick of his torso, he then managed to shake the man off, he says.
At one point, he and I fell out of bed. And so the wrestling match continued on the ground.
Fend
In connection with this, Abdurachmanov discovered the hammer on the ground. He grabbed it and started hitting back, he says.
– I had the opportunity to win in this fight when I had the hammer in my hands. Before that, he was in power.
– After a few blows with the hammer that hit him on the head, he began to speak Russian with me. He addressed me by first name, said “Tumsu, please don’t knock.”
When Abdurachmanov managed to subdue his attacker, he taped his hands together, he says. In a movie that he later streamed live on Instagram, he made the man admit that he came from Moscow.
Prosecutor Per Lindqvist believes that the attack has its background in a “blood revenge” that the Chechen president pronounced against the blogger after criticizing the former leader of the republic, Achmat Kadyrov.
Abdurachmanov also believes that the man, whom he had never seen before, must have received an order from the Chechen leadership to kill him.
– I am absolutely convinced that he wanted to kill me. He clearly understood that he could not return to Russia without having killed me.
I didn’t want to kill
The defendant, a Russian citizen in his 30s, has a completely different version of events. He denies the attempted murder but admits aggravated assault.
He says he only struck one blow with the hammer, but that the intention was never murder. He also denies that it happened in the way Abdurachmanov describes.
According to the man, he repeatedly said no to kill Abdurachmanov, but in the end he did not dare to deny his client from Chechnya, mainly an identified man who is detained in his absence. However, his plan was only to harm Abdurachmanov and then run away and tell him that he had failed, according to the man.
Now he fears for his life and has applied for asylum in Sweden, according to his lawyer Gustaf Andersson.
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