On the other hand, opposition leader Ilya Yashin, Nemtsov’s colleague, says: “Nemtsov never said a bad word about Islam. He was absolutely tolerant in terms of religion. Of course, he criticized terrorists who killed the Charlie Hebdo journalists in Paris. But many public figures were louder and tougher in their criticisms.” So this could be a setup by Putin to mask his taking-out of someone who opposed him. We may never know what really happened.
“Prime suspect says Nemtsov killed over ‘negative comments on Muslims’ – report,” RT, March 9, 2015:
Zaur Dadaev, who had reportedly confessed involvement in Nemtsov’s murder, said he organized the crime in revenge for the opposition leader’s “negative comments on Muslims and Islam,” according to Rosbalt’s source in law enforcement.
Dadaev is one of five suspects arrested in connection with the politician’s assassination. The judge Natalia Mushnikova said on Sunday that Dadaev confessed his involvement in the crime to the investigators. The accused didn’t comment on this during the court session.
The Rosbalt news agency claims its source in the law enforcement knows exactly what Dadaev said during interrogation.
In January 2015, the suspect allegedly “learnt that Boris Nemtsov more than once allowed himself negative comments on Muslims living in Russia, prophet Mohammed and Islam,” according to the news agency.
“As a matter of fact, Dadaev acknowledged having organized this crime,” Rosbalt’s source said.
It has not been specified which of Nemtsov’s words in particular angered his alleged killers.
Following the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris, the politician wrote in his blog that the world was witnessing a “medieval Islamic inquisition.”
He also said the Chechen leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, “made everyone sick with his threats” and should be “put in jail.”
Hundreds of thousands in the Chechen capital of Grozny participated in a rally against the publication of Prophet Mohammed cartoons by the Charlie Hebdo magazine shortly after the terrorist attacks in Paris.
The opposition has been skeptical of Islamist motives behind Nemtsov’s murder.
Ilya Yashin, the co-leader of Nemtsov’s liberal opposition party RPR-Parnas described the theory as “absurd.”
“Nemtsov never said a bad word about Islam,” Yashin wrote on Facebook. “He was absolutely tolerant in terms of religion. Of course, he criticized terrorists who killed the Charlie Hebdo journalists in Paris. But many public figures were louder and tougher in their criticisms.”
The president of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, earlier said he knew Zaur Dadaev “as a patriot of Russia,” who used to serve as deputy regiment commander in one of the Chechen Republic’s interior ministry units.
“Everyone who knows Zaur says that he is a profoundly religious man and that he, as all Muslims, was shocked by what Charlie did and by comments in support of the cartoons,” Kadyrov wrote on Instagram.
Boris Nemtsov, 55, who occupied senior government posts under President Boris Yeltsin and afterwards became an opposition leader, was shot dead on February 27 near the Moscow Kremlin. The assassination, which happened two days ahead of an opposition rally Nemtsov helped organize, triggered a flurry of condemnations and calls for a swift investigation.
Thousands of people across Russia joined marches in commemoration of the slain politician a week ago.
The Russian Investigative Committee earlier said that Nemtsov’s stance on the Charlie Hebdo shootings was one of the things they were looking into as part of the investigation.
“There are reports that Nemtsov received threats due to his position over the shooting of Charlie Hebdo staff in Paris,” Vladimir Markin, spokesman for the Investigative Committee, said in February….
Nicu says
At least they cannot blame Putin for that , too .
F** Islam !
Ua says
Usually, I wouldn’t comment on it but this just doesn’t sit well with me. I’m a Ukrainian and evn in UA and the supporters of Nemtzov in Russia knows it’s bull****. He was murdered by the Putin tyrannical regime just like the others were who dared to stand up to Putin. Nemtzov was going to show the actual proof of Russian troops fighting in Ukraine during the above mentioned rally.
Islam is the biggest lie that has ever existed but in this particular case it was indeed Putin who killed him and a dozen others.
mortimer says
It looks very suspicious.
A bit like the line in ‘Casablanca’: “Round up the usual suspects.”
Lioness says
That’s a good one.
AnneCrockett says
I did think the Religion of Peace might be involved when I read that one of the suspects blew himself up. I thought the smart money was on Putin being behind the murder, but maybe I have just been watching too much House of Cards too quickly.
katarzyna says
I’ve been watching as well. Very good season. Maybe Frank Underwood/Obama is behind it. Some kind of covert operation in the Kremlin Valley.
pumbar says
Is that a remake of the British House of cards? It sounds like it. An excellent series.
I love to hate islam says
Putin killed the man and blame it on Islam… Putin is a master of propaganda. Notice how he tries to Blame it on the West or Ukraine by saying they killed him to start unrest.
Peggy says
Putin is accused of everything. i bet that if Putin got killed people like you would blame that on him too.
The mess in Ukraine was started by the west. The west is a master of propaganda too you know.
Jay Boo says
Look the other way and give Putin Ukraine if he agrees to dump Iran.
voegelinian says
We only have the word of Yahsin that Nemtsov “never said a bad word about Islam”. Meanwhile, his confessed assassin, Dadaev, is a Chechen Muslim. The Chechen Muslims have been waging jihad against Russia for decades, using terror attacks over the years — so many, that Russia counts as probably the worst victim any Western nation of Islamic terrorism.
abu lahab says
“So this could be a setup by Putin to mask his taking-out of someone who opposed him.”
-Huge fan, Robert, but why even give credence to this conspiracy theory? At a time when the Muslim Brothers are on the march, and NEO-NAZI Ukrainians as well, this is no time to be going back to Cold War rhetoric. We should be building an alliance with Russia, China, Israel, India, Thailand, and every other country threatened by the jihad.
Enragedsince1999 says
Robert,
Be sceptical Re: anything Ilya Yashin & the rest of Russian “opposition” say. They are a rather disreputable bunch. They will even deny the obvious Islamist motive to hang everythin on Putin to please the Insane McCain, the poisonous Brzezinski and other obsessive Russia-haters here in the US. The “opposition” call themselves “democrats”, but the Russian people call them “dermocrats” (“dermo” means “dung” in Russian). This is because those nutters ibsist on publically insulting the entire Russian people. No wonder the Russians refuse to vote for them. Here are a few “dermocrats” on record”:
“The Russan people are nothing but biomass”, Viktor Schenderovich.
“Patriotism makes me vomit with worms”, Ulitskaia.
“The Russian people are a coffin filled with rotten entrails”, Viktor Yerofeev.
“The entire Russian government should be hanged by their feet”; Ilya Ponomarev.
And here is the nutty Chess King Gary Kasparov who makes even the late Bobby Fischer look almost normal, speaking before the US Congress ( ! ) just last week, March 4: “Putin and his entire cabinet are a cancerous growth that must be cut out. Don’t talk to them. Just cut them out”. This is the same Kasparov who called on the US to threaten Russia with wae in a NY Times Op-Ed last year.
Ruslan Tokhchukov, EnragedSince1999.
Peggy says
Every nation have their own traitors and Russia is no different.
All it takes is money and NGOs are set up to destabilize the country. Then we have “democratic opposition” to look even more legitimate.
Enragedsince1999 says
Very true. Indeed, it is through the NGOs, and through the generous handing out of grants that our US State Dept. has recruited thousands of traitors in Russia.
Meanwhile, the US-backed Kiev regime, which is also noisily supported by Russia’s treasonous “dermocrats” is fighting shoulder-toshoulder with ISIS-affiliated Islamic jihadis:
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/staff/marcin-mamon/
Ruslan Tokhchukov, EnragedSince1999.
Sam Hawkins says
Mafia hit. The capo di tutti capi (Putin) asks his Chechen underboss (Kadyrov) to “take care of it”. The apprehended suspects are “cut-outs”. They will be sent away for ten years, meanwhile their families get millions.