“Azerbaijan`s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Embassy in Russia are taking agreat interest in the criminal investigation of Orkhan Zeynalov suspected of 25-year-old Egor Sherbakov`s murder,” Azerbaijani Interior Ministry`s representative in the Russian Federation, Colonel Eldar Samadov told APA`s Moscow correspondent.
He said that during the preliminary interrogation, 31-year old Azerbaijani citizen Orkhan Zeynalov confessed that he had committed the murder: “Currently, the investigation is underway. Orkhan Zeynalov confessed to the law enforcement officers that he had committed the murder. Egor Sherbakov`s girlfriend witnessed the murder. Zeynalov will be confronted with that girl. The Russian investigative bodies are currently investigating whether or not he was drunk while committing the murder and other information.”
Samadov said Orkhan Zeynalov is a citizen of Azerbaijan registered in Seyfali village of Shamkir region: “As a person suspected of murder is the Azerbaijani citizen, both the Azerbaijani Ambassador to Russia and Azerbaijan`s Ministry of Internal Affairs are taking a great interest in the criminal investigation: “Moscow police chief Anatoly Yakunin said that Orkhan Zeynalov is also wanted in Azerbaijan over murder. I want to say that this is false information. Orkhan Zeynalov hasn`t been wanted in Azerbaijan on any article.”
Representative of Azerbaijani Interior Ministry also commented on the videos reflecting the detention process of Orkhan Zeynalov by the Russian law-enforcement bodies: “Orkhan Zeynalov confessed that he had committed the murder. Thousands of the Azerbaijanis are currently suffering from his action in Moscow. We are interested in the progress of the investigation. We can`t intervene in the disseminations of videos, unless Orkhan Zeynalov is found not guilty of this murder. His action caused resonance in the country. The residents of the district are rebelling against the murder. They need to be calm down.”
Samadov said it is incomprehensible that the Russian TV channels are making a show from this incident: “Such murders are committed frequently. It is a murder committed over dispute. It is incomprehensible why the TV channels are broadcasting news on "Azerbaijani citizen Orkhan Zeynalov detained" so frequently. Why to do that?! The investigation should be conducted over the suspected man. However, we don`t understand why they are demonstratively showing these videos over and over again.”
On October 10, the murder of 25-year-old Egor Sherbakov by a Caucasian caused protest of the local residents. Hundreds of Russian nationalists and skinheads attacked Biryoza trade center and Pokrov fruit store and beat to death Caucasians and Central Asians. Special police forces were deployed at the site. The skinheads showed resistance to the police. They seriously damaged shops, facilities and automobiles in the trade center. A large number of migrants and local residents were injured as a result of incidents committed by Russian nationalists.
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