"5 liters of blood and 48 blows": The cause of Rifat Dautov's death has been revealed.
Family buried Rifat in February, but he is still a defendant in the case of “mass riots” in Baimak.
Dautov's relatives, who disagreed with the findings of the Ministry of Health's forensic expert, insisted on an independent examination. Bashkortostan Mikhail Lapin, who described numerous bruises, abrasions and skin lesions, but indicated that they were not the cause of death.
«Taking into account the thickness of the hematomas, the volume of internal blood loss should be at least 5,19 liters"," the independent expert concluded. He also noted that there were "at least 48" blows, and the total area affected was "at least 30% of the body's surface."
“Not less” – because the study was conducted using photographs, and it was not possible to determine the exact number of blows – the blood splatter had merged into one continuous bruise.
Rifat Dautov He was placed on the federal wanted list on January 18, the day after a mass protest in Baimak against the sentence of the Bashkir environmental activist. To Fail Alsynov (sentenced to 4 years in prison). The alleged reason was an attack on the chief of police of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. Rustam Asanov's Sterlitamak On January 17 in Baimak, one of the protesters "struck a man in the head with his hands, causing him bodily injuries in the form of bruises on the soft tissues of his scalp."
However, according to documents obtained by Idel.Realii, the victim himself "identified" Dautov from a photograph only on January 25. And Rifat wasn't in Baymak that day—according to his sister, he was passing through Ufa medical examination before the next shift, and in the afternoon I dropped in to visit her.
Dautov was detained on January 25 in the village New Chebenki In the Zianchurinsky District of Bashkortostan, where he had traveled with his girlfriend to visit her parents. He was apparently picked up by Rosgvardiya officers (at least, that's the unit sent to detain him). They took him to Baimak, where he was handed over to the patrol officers who were transporting other detainees to Ufa in connection with the same case. Even during the transfer, it was obvious that the man was unwell (this was reported). testified, including other detainees).
The man never made it to the regional capital. The convoy called an ambulance to a gas station en route, and the paramedics who arrived pronounced him dead. This was early in the morning of January 26. And almost immediately after the fact published, propaganda publics rushed to accuse the man of drinking alcohol, and then drugs. Neither. did not find even the “full-time” forensic expert (who, as it turned out, was not even accredited).
«Direct confirmation of this diagnosis is, in addition to the incompatible with life volume of internal bleeding due to damage to fairly large vessels, also signs of exsanguination of internal organs and traumatic shock»
— the independent expert clarified.
A criminal case regarding the death of Rifat Dautov has not yet been opened; the relatives received another refusal on June 24, 2024, from the senior investigator of the Beloretsk Interdistrict Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Republic of Bashkortostan. Ekaterina TikhonovaNow the family's lawyer Pavel Vasilyev is preparing another petition, hoping to “make the investigative machine work—and work according to the law.”