13 April 2012, 22:40
In Moscow, farewell ceremony to Mekhtiev attended by about two thousand
Moscow hosted a farewell to the public figure, a native of Azerbaijan Metin Mekhtiev, who was killed on April 10 in the centre of the Russian capital. The ceremony was attended by about two thousand people.
As reported by the Council of Muftis of Russia, the traditional memorial prayer (djinaza) was read over the coffin of the deceased installed in the Jami in Mir Avenue in Moscow by Ravil Gainutdin, the head of the Council. Mr Mekhtiev's relatives were also present at the farewell ceremony.
The funeral will be held today at the Kuzminki Cemetery in Moscow, the RIA "Novosti" reports.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported that they had established the appearance of the man who could kill Mekhtiev. The alleged criminal was captured by a surveillance camera of the store, visited by the victim. Photos of the suspect are available on the website of the Moscow Police, the "Interfax" reports.
Earlier, the Russian Congress of Peoples of the Caucasus appealed to the Public Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika asking him to pay attention to the situation around the killing of Metin Mekhtiev. "An insufficiently objective and superficial inquiry into such cases can lead to a real destabilization of the situation and break the fragile interethnic peace in Moscow, and even the whole of Russia," the spokesman of the above Congress told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
