Chief editor of “Novaya Gazeta” has promised to arm their journalists
MOSCOW, 26 Oct — RIA Novosti. Chief editor of “Novaya Gazeta” Dmitry Muratov promised to give the journalists the traumatic weapon to “increase their security”. Such a statement he made in the air of “Echo of Moscow”.
“Editor in chief “the New newspaper” has decided to strengthen the security of its journalists. They will be given, in particular, the traumatic weapon,” reads a statement on the website of the radio station.
On Monday, the citizen of Russia and Israeli Boris grits broke into the office of radio station “Echo of Moscow” and hit the journalist Tatyana Felgengauer with a knife in the throat. The court arrested the suspect. Grits partially admitted his guilt, saying that he was going to kill the lead.
Russian investigators intend to ask the Israel medical documentation on the Grits, who claimed that the journalist had “chased two months” through “telepathic contact”. The grits is appointed is judicial-psychiatric examination.