The police department of the Viciebsk district decided to refuse the CCP BPF Party activist Jan Dzyarzhautsau a criminal investigation into the disappearance of the five crosses, set in a forest near the village of Chajsy on the supposed site of executions of citizens during the political repression in the 30s - 40s of the last century.
In October, Jan Dzyarzhautsau gave the police a statement in which he asked to be checked into the theft of five wooden crosses established opposition. Activist estimated his losses in the amount of five hundred thousand, since it is such funds have been spent on purchasing their lumber and manufacturing of these crosses.
By submitting the application, Mr. Jan has decided, together with his comrades in the party to inspect the disappearance of his property. At the next visit to the forest party activists at a distance of about 70 meters from the place of burial of repressed discovered two of the five missing crosses.
Around the same time, during the examination of the forest officers of the Viciebsk police station at a distance of about 50 meters from the burial site were discovered two crosses. As can be seen, all four cross lay on the site of detection for a long time, as evidenced Printed on earth lodge.
Crosses have been found by the police as a result of search activities and verification of actions, on receipt were handed over to Jan Dzyarzhautsau. A fifth of the missing crosses were not found.
However, the police continued to investigate. To identify involved in criminal violations have been checked persons previously convicted of acquisitive crimes, abuse of alcohol and leading an antisocial way of life, living on the territory of the Mazałava village council, Viciebsk district.
In order to establish what happened to witnesses interviewed residents of nearby villages, representatives of the search-and-archeological group that led the excavations at the site of mass graves in the tract Chajsy, as well as employees of Łośvida forestry and the Mazałava village council.
However, the investigation has not taken measures led to the establishment of the perpetrator of the theft unresolved cross.
It should be noted that the reason for the refusal to institute criminal proceedings was not an unknown person who committed the theft of personal property of a political activist.
The investigator found that the actions of a person who has carried four cross the distance of 50 to 70 meters from the place of their installation, there are no offenses under Art. 344 (intentional destruction, destruction or damage of monuments of history and culture), Art. 346 (abuse of historical and cultural values) of the Criminal Code. Since these norms objects criminal assault may be only those that are in accordance with the applicable law referred to historical and cultural monuments in the official order. Crosses installed activists of the CCP BPF to such objects do not belong.
Also, police officers felt that not constitute a crime under Art. 347 of the Criminal Code (desecration of the corpse or the grave), as the object of a criminal assault is designated in the prescribed manner (registered in the local executive bodies of the cemetery, lonely graves), the burial place of the body of the deceased or the deceased person, as well as storage cremains of a corpse in a columbarium.
With regard to the unresolved cross, the police believe that the actions of unidentified persons kidnapped him, not constitute a crime under Art. 205 of the Criminal Code (secret theft of property), because the cost of a wooden cross is one hundred thousand rubles, which is less than the size of the two basic units. Nevertheless, from the district department of internal affairs policy of the opposition said that the actions of unidentified persons seen signs of an administrative offense under Art. 10.5 (petty theft) of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Republic of Belarus.
Based on the foregoing, the deputy chief of criminal investigation department of the Vitebsk police department police major Kovalenok refused to Jan Dzyarzhautsau to open a criminal investigation into the disappearance of wooden crosses - due to lack of evidence. But he promised that in case a person who has committed the theft of the cross, which has not been found, will address the issue of bringing him to administrative liability under Art. 10.5 of the Administrative Code of Belarus.
Vitebsk Spring
