“I do not agree with the verdict, I will appeal it,” one of the commission members who visited Smirnov in pre-trial detention center # 4 quoted him as saying.
According to the interlocutor of RT, the former policeman does not admit guilt.
In an interview with human rights activists, he said that he considers himself a victim of provocation by the staff of the Internal Security Service.
“In court, we were not allowed to show the jury a video of how the CSS officers were preparing this provocation, and my right to defense was violated,” Smirnov told the POC members.
In the pre-trial detention center, he is in a ten-place cell, but there are only six people in it.
“The former policeman says that both the administration and the inmates treat him well and asks not to be transferred to a pre-trial detention center in another region until the appeal is considered.
Although he has serious nutritional claims.
He says that there is little meat in the gruel, only beef or chicken fiber, and there are no whole pieces, ”the PMC noted.
In February 2021, the jury found Smirnov guilty of shooting his colleagues, but worthy of leniency.
On April 5, the court sentenced the ex-policeman to 19 years in prison.
Smirnov also has to pay the family of the police officer who died at his hands 3.5 million rubles.
In September 2019, in the lobby of the Ryazansky Prospekt metro station in Moscow, a metro police officer suspected of taking a bribe opened fire from a service weapon at employees of the internal security department.
As a result of the incident, one policeman was killed and another was injured.