Students charged over market bombing [Russia]

AFP/theaustralian ^ | August 23, 2006

[ncountylee]

TWO Russian students will be charged with racially motivated premeditated murder in a Moscow market bombing that killed 10 people and wounded dozens, the Moscow prosecutor said today.

The two students "admitted that they committed this act at the market... because there were many people of Asian origin" working there, prosecutor Yury Semin said at a news conference.

The blast struck the crowded Eurasia market in eastern Moscow yesterday, destroying dozens of stalls and tearing a hole in the roof.

Ilya Tikhomirov, a student at the Moscow Social Institute who was born in 1986, and Oleg Kostyerev, a student at the Mendeleyev Institute of Chemistry who was born in 1988, admitted to making the bombs at home using plans they found on the Internet, Mr Semin said.

Searches of the suspects' homes uncovered the materials used to make the bombs, Mr Semin said, including aluminum powder, powdered sugar, acetone and sulfuric acid.

Mr Semin also said there was a third suspect, student Valery Yukovtsov, who had not admitted to the crime.

Numerous witnesses were quoted by Russian newspapers today as saying they had seen several young men leave bags at a Vietnamese cafe in the centre of the market and flee the scene shortly before the explosion.

[ncountylee]

Not Islamic terrorism it appears.

[AdamSelene235]

Not Islamic terrorism it appears.

Sounds like racist/counter-Islamic terrorism. Looks like Uzbeks, Tajiks and Chinese were hit.

Its a shame. Those are the only people in Moscow who can cook worth a damn.

[Red Badger]

I see some loooooong dark nights in Siberia for these guys.........

[monday]

Not Siberia. If they are sent to the common criminal prison they probably won't last long though. It's insanely overcrowded, dozens packed into cells designed to hold two, and diseases like tuberculosis kill most inmates before their sentences are served.

On the other hand, if they can make the case that their crime was a political one, the political prison near Moscow isn't so bad. It's club med compared to the common criminals prisons.

[monday]

Will likely see more of this kind of reverse terrorism as people get fed up with PC laws that protect Muslims while criminalizing anyone who criticizes them.

[Centurion2000]

Those are the only people in Moscow who can cook worth a damn.

What are you ... smoking crack? Russian food is awesome.

[AdamSelene235]

Will likely see more of this kind of reverse terrorism as people get fed up with PC laws

In Moscow you can and will be stopped by the police for having brown skin. Daily. Moscow doesn't do PC.