Deputy Khamzayev: it is unacceptable to label the nationalities of criminals in the media suspected of crimes and convicted. He wrote about this on his Instagram.
“I consider it unacceptable when individual bloggers and journalists publish all kinds of unverified comments in the media even before the official version of the investigation, highlighting and labeling nationalities,” he said.
Khamzayev stressed that he would seek the adoption of the relevant law. According to the deputy, such formulations humiliate the dignity of third parties who did not take part in the conflict.
Thus, the deputy commented on the fight in New Moscow, during which four men attacked a father with a child. Initially, the media reported that Caucasians staged a fight, later it turned out that all the detainees were natives of one of the states of the Transcaucasus, and three of them received Russian Federation citizenship.
After the attack, a case was initiated under Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code ( “Hooliganism”), but later the head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, instructed to re-qualify him in the case of attempted murder.