Julia Nasulina. The lawyers of the Ukrainian Director Oleg Sentsov, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for organizing terrorist acts in Crimea, have plans to appeal the verdict, told reporters one of his defensemen Dmitry dinze.
Tuesday North-Caucasian district military court has pronounced a sentence Sentsov to 20 years, and the second defendant Alexander Kolchenko to 10 years of imprisonment.
"This is the expected sentence. Oleg (Sentsova) said that He will get 20 years and a promise fulfilled. Of course, we will appeal the verdict, " the attorney said.
He said that de facto, a single argument of protection by the court was not taken into account." Starting from the case, Oleg Sentsov) in fact not guilty of what they accused him of, " added Player protection.
According to the lawyer, the complaint will be filed in the Supreme court of the Russian Federation in the near future. Anyway, according to his vision, if the court will change the verdict, it is only " a year or two "." We will continue to resolve the issue that Sentsov was serving a sentence in Ukraine. But It's 50: 50, as he is considered a citizen of the Russian Federation ", - He said.
By assumption of the investigation, Sentsov created in Crimea terrorist Commonwealth, which structural unit is prohibited in the Russian movement " Right sector ", for the release of the Peninsula from Russia. According to the SC, the defendants from April to may 2014 was set on fire in Simferopol offices of the public organization "Russian community of Crimea" and the local branch of the party " United Russia ". The defendants were also charged in the attempted organization may 9, 2014 the explosion of the monument to Lenin in Simferopol.
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