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Two charged with Nemtsov killing include former Chechen policeman

2015-03-09 08:45:19       source:Reuters

March 8, 2015

 

"Russian authorities said on Sunday they had charged two men over the killing of Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov and said one of them was a former senior policeman from the mainly Muslim region of Chechnya who had confessed to involvement in the crime.

 

The two were among five men, all ethnic Chechens, frogmarched into a Moscow courtroom on Sunday, forced by masked security officers gripping their bound arms to walk doubled over, a Reuters reporter at the court said.

 

The men stood in metal cages as television crews were ushered in to film them."

 

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