"Igor, back off, don't mess with them!" - "No, I'll pick them off"

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Protector of the protected area was shot in Tatarstan

He openly talked about the machinations with "specially protected natural areas" along the banks of the Kama and Volga.

Igor Sapatov was killed on the evening of July 18. He was 40 years old, he lived with his family in Tenki. I didn’t watch TV, I sat on the Internet in my free hours. Five years ago, residents of Tenkov wrote collective petitions to Rosnedvizhimost, Rosprirodnadzor, the Minister of Internal Affairs and the President of Russia. About manipulations with "specially protected natural areas" along the banks of the Kama and Volga. How, under the guise of the right of villagers to receive priority land without their knowledge, coastal plots are drawn up on them, how then these plots are resold to the rich, for whom 2 - 3-storey houses and canals are being built here, in the protected area, the bank is being dug up and access to the river is blocked, reports "Evening Kazan".

There was no intelligible reaction of the law enforcement officers to this; residents of Tenkov stopped fighting, and Igor continued to complain. He also wrote about the seedlings stolen from the local forestry, with which these stolen lands are "ennobled". And he directly named the one who does it.

In 2009, they tried to set fire to Sapatov's house, they planted cartridges at him (fortunately, he was the first to find them), and the killer was sent. Then Igor was rescued by sambo skills. And the criminal cases initiated in these cases were soon closed "due to the absence of suspects."

And Igor continued to write to anti-corruption sites: “The seizure of plots was carried out, mainly of the coastal strip. All attempts to appeal to the police, the prosecutor's office, the district administration, the court ended in complete inaction of the authorities. When trying to appeal to higher levels, the cases went back to the district."

That very evening, the acquaintances of the deceased say, Igor and his son went to fetch the sand. The son, while waiting for him on the road, saw someone in the bushes, when Igor drove up with sand, said to him: "Dad, someone is hiding there." Let's go look, and he jumped out - and shoot!

Igor pushed his son in the direction of the village, and he ran to another - into the fields. Sasha ran to the neighbors, the neighbor started the car, and they drove to the rescue … Far away in the field, they found Igor - dead, covered in blood. He was strong and ran to the last, even wounded, took the killer away from his dwelling.

- Policemen, investigators came in large numbers … - says the neighbor. - Until three in the morning he lay in the field, covered in blood.

When asked what the locals associate this murder with, she does not hesitate to answer that only with his struggle against the seizure of these lands, whoever these invaders are:

- This is the real mafia! And would anyone dare to approach them and say: is it not your own doing ?! Everyone told him: "Igor, back off, don't mess with them!" - "No, I'll knock them off." Can't you knock off those like that ?!

All of us in the prosecutor's office were interrogated, both our son and our daughter … - said Igor's wife. “I don’t know if his murder will be solved. Not sure.

The Department of Internal Affairs of the Kamsko-Ust'insky region said that they could not give any information about the progress of the investigation. They said that this case was in the investigation department of the TFR. The press service of the Investigative Directorate of the ICR in the Republic of Tatarstan was delighted that the information was about to be ready, but then they stopped answering calls.