The below video depicting a woman’s cruel murder was leaked to internet in 2011.
Russian netizens quickly identified that the murderer spoke the Chechen language, leading to an outburst of anti-Caucasus sentiments. Some time later, however, the video was denounced as a fake and most people forgot about it.
But two weeks ago (December 24, 2012) a short announcement on the official site of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation confirmed that it was the footage of a real murder.
Initial reactions on Internet: “The video is fake.”
At first the video was met with skepticism. Here is the translation from one such report “proving” that the footage was fake.
An expert stated that the video of the brutal murder circulating in Internet was fake. He assumed that this xenophobic falsification was directed with the purpose of inciting hatred towards non-Russians. In the video a man of Caucasian [ed: belonging to the people of Caucasus] appearance cuts throat of a woman lying on the ground.
According to a lawyer and retired police colonel Yevgeny Chernousov, the homegrown producers of the video clip can be held criminally liable.
“Definitely, this is a falsification, – says Yevgeny Chernousov. – Based on my 30 years of experience in police, I know the consequences of such a brutal murder. In this case one can’t see a blood fountain or any blood sprayed on the offender. This is fake.“
Press release of the Investigative Committee: “It was a real murder.”
Two weeks ago some unexpected news about the criminal case, linked to the video, was published on the official site of the Investigative Committee in the Chechen Republic.
From Sledcom.RU:
Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation in the Chechen Republic has completed the investigation of the criminal case against the 26-year-old Salavdi Adamov (accused in the murder of 2 people) and 22-year-old Beshto Abalaev (aiding and abetting).
In July 2011 Adamov killed a 22-years-old girl. He forced her to get into his car and brought her to a deserted area in the forest. There Adamov strangled the woman, doused her body with gasoline and set her on fire.
In August 8 2011 he met another girl (not identified by detectives) who voluntarily sat in his car. Adamov then forcibly put her into the luggage compartment of the car. The same evening Adamov asked his friend Abalaev to accompany him to hang out at the outskirts of the village Dzhugurty – the latter agreed unaware of the fact that there was someone in the luggage compartment.
When the men arrived, Adamov pulled out the girl, who threatened to file complaint in police. Adamov decided to kill her and offered Alabaev to watch and record the process on camera phone.
He strangled the victim, and when she lost consciousness cut her neck with knife. The girl died from acute blood loss. After the murder he burned the body.
Investigators have gathered sufficient evidence and passed the criminal case to the courts.
Comments of Russian netizens
mr_quietest: Such a peace-loving, kind and sophisticated nation, huh…Миролюбивая, добрая и утонченная народность, да…
[Note: the last comment is related to the recent news about Gerard Depardieu receiving the Russian citizenship]
anykeev: If cops would check the content of mobile phones of these churkas – we might have the whole video portal of such videos.
[Note: the last comment is very characteristic to online discussions of crimes committed by the representatives of ethnic minorities from the Caucasus. Russian netizens believe that Caucasian criminals get the preferential treatment from authorities, receiving very soft punishments or even acquitted when there is strong evidence proving the opposite]
warandwar: That’s a real brave, bold, strong hero and warrior.настоящий джигит, смелый, сильный, герой, воин.
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Where was the murder committed? In Chechnya or in russia? And is the victim ethnic russian?
There are not many Russians left in Chechnya. She was probably a local girl who did not want to cover herself in a giant trash bag, since Allah believes women are trash.
It was committed in Chechnya (which is part of Russia, of course). The first victim was Adygean. The second – from the video – was Slavic (not sure, however, if she was Russian – maybe Ukrainian or Belarusian). This information is from the sources which I didn’t translate.
Perhaps Russians should think about reinstating death penalty.
Sometimes, physical violence is less horrible than such deeds. I hardly can sit in front of computer after watching this video. Oh, gush.
I’m not sure which part of this story is more disturbing, the fact that Adamov had no problem committing this heinous crime, or Alabaev had no trouble in recording the incident on his phone. Whats less surprising is that the idiots had little trouble in sharing the video online.
I agree with Wei Wang, the death penalty is the obvious solution.
The most disturbing part is that these two will probably be soon free – free to commit another crime.
As bad as society has gotten, I still can’t believe there’s not more murders put online. Everyone would say its fake, until it got gruesome. And you’d get so much fame out of it. *shrug* I’m sure we’ll get there someday, but I’m shocked it hasn’t been an epidemic yet….
the worst part is how she was still wailing her arms around and kicking her feet after the foul deed had been done. watching her struggle like that strikes an acute cord inside of me.
If these murders were not so hideous I would be laughing at the sarcastic exchanges. Personally, i have no knowledge of the hostilities between Russia & Chechen and it is clear that everyone here appears quite brilliant
Now I’m even more disgusted wit our US public education
Why does no one else seem horrified that this video is still online??
This poor girl has had her life taken,all rights and dignities stripped from her and we are insulting the memory of the fact that she was brutally murdered by watching this video! What if her mother came across it, imagine seeing your daughter,sister, lover laying scared and alone having everything taken from her. This need to be taken off, give her some respect in death that she didn’t recieve in this cruel life.
I agree but the truth is once it’s been put online it can never be taken back
Although I’m pretty sure videos with content like this are not normally allowed on YouTube…
I hope they wont kill him in prison. They should abuse him day by day, for his entire life. Death would be fast freedom for this scumbag
Muslims are baboons. They should have been driven out of Russia years ago. Muslim Culture is incompatible with Western or Russian society.
She was already out of it fron being strangled, wasn’t conscious enough to feel the knife. In fact, she’s attempting to fix her hair at the end. Gotta look gorgeous for the camera at all times ya know.
White Americans love to spout the fact that thy’re descended from these animals. No wonder they are such a violent gun loving nation.
wut?Your comment makes zero sense.There may be violence in America but its nothing next to Europe.It was Europe that killed 1000s in the name of communism,facism,nazism,ect…And who are saying Americans are proud to be descended from?All I see in the vid are eastern europeans…which is a group of people that may as well not exist in the minds of Americans.
So are you trolling or just stupid?
Caucasian. The word you are looking for is Caucasian. Not Eastern European; Eastern Europe is 2500km away from the Caucasus. Americans and geography… sigh…
What you talk about things that do not know, it is Chechen! were killed for prostitution!
Killing is killing either one person or more than one women or men. We strongly oppose such a insane humiliation without looking at who is doing such a opprobrious , Muslim, christen, Jew ,Russian, American or whatever the religion or nationality is. But the fact is without knowing any thing I can see people are posting comment against religion and nationality. So called Muslims are baboons, etc. Together here or any where the platform should be against the crime and criminal not the personality, Nationality, Religion or Colour. I know one thing, the one who oppose any of them rather then the real point is just an other criminal in different way, who wants to blow up fire not to kill the fire. Regards!