Boris Nemtsov case: Video reports conflict in probe of slaying of Putin critic
In Geneva, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called the Nemtsov killing a “heinous crime which will be fully investigated.” He told the U.N. Human Rights Council on Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin had “immediately handed down all instructions and is ensuring special control over this investigation.”
At the same time he rebuffed outside interference in the probe, saying any “attempt to use the heinous killing of Boris Nemtsov for political purposes is despicable.”
Investigators said they are looking into several possible motives for the slaying and have offered 3 million rubles (nearly $50,000) for information about it, but so far there have been few leads.
The one witness is the Ukrainian woman who was accompanying Nemtsov when he was shot, 23-year-old Anna Duritskaya. She has been under police guard for questioning since early Saturday, but in an interview Monday with the independent Russian TV channel Dozhd she said she had not seen Nemtsov’s attacker.
“I didn’t see anything,” she told Dozhd. “I turned around and all I saw was a light-colored car. I saw neither the brand nor the license plate of the car when it was driving away.”
Duritskaya said she had known Nemtsov for three years. She said she had been questioned exhaustively by police and wants to leave the country but Russian investigators would not let her. She is now staying at a friend’s apartment in Moscow.
Meanwhile, TV Center, a station controlled by the Moscow city government, broadcast a poor-resolution video from one of its web cameras that it said shows Nemtsov and his date shortly before the killing.
The station, which superimposed its own time code on the footage, circled figures that it said were Nemtsov and the woman walking across the bridge on a rainy night. A vehicle that TVC identified as a snowplow moved slowly behind the couple, obscuring the view of the shooting. TV Center then circled what it said was the suspected killer jumping into a passing car.
The authenticity of the TVC video could not be independently confirmed.
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