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WORLD NEWS Friday 30 June 2017

5 found guilty in killing of Russian opposition leader

By NATALIYA VASILYEVA Prosecutors are expected
Associated Press to announce the sentenc-
MOSCOW (AP) — A jury es they are seeking at a
convicted five men Thurs- hearing next week.
day in the assassination Nemtsov, 55, was shot late
of opposition leader Boris on the night of Feb. 27,
Nemtsov on a bridge near 2015, as he was walking
the Kremlin two years ago, across the Bolshoy Mosk-
ending a trial that his sup- ovetsky Bridge just outside
porters said had failed to the Kremlin. A few hours be-
bring the true masterminds fore his death, he had con-
of the brazen killing to jus- ducted a radio interview in
tice. The shooting death so which he denounced Putin
close to Red Square sent for his “mad, aggressive”
shockwaves through the policies in the Ukraine crisis.
Russian opposition, which The images of Nemtsov’s
had looked to the former body lying on the sidewalk
deputy prime minister and with the domes of St. Basil’s
fierce critic of President Cathedral towering behind
Vladimir Putin as a rising re- sent a chilling message to
former who could negoti- many in the opposition,
ate with authorities. who had faced persecu-
After two days of delibera- tion and arrests, of just how
tions at the end of a nine- precarious their position
month trial, the jury at a In this December, 2011 photo, Boris Nemtsov, an opposition leader, speaks to The Associated was. Ilya Yashin, Nemtsov’s
Moscow court found Zaur Press Television News in Moscow, Russia. A jury on Thursday June 29, 2017 has found five men close ally, echoed that
guilty in the assassination of Nemtsov. Nemtsov, a top opponent of President Vladimir Putin, was
Dadayev guilty of killing shot in 2015 as he was walking across a bridge just outside the Kremlin. sentiment after the verdict.
Nemtsov. Dadayev was a (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) “Political murders in Russia
former officer in the secu- will continue if the mas-
rity forces of Chechnya’s victed of involvement in the murder weapons and said they never established terminds of this attack are
leader, Ramzan Kadyrov. the killing. Prosecutors said drove the shooter to the who ordered Nemtsov’s as- able to get away with this,”
Four other men were con- the four helped obtain crime scene. Investigators sassination. Yashin told reporters.q

Migrant pressures grow; Italy presses EU nations to do more

By FRANCES D’EMILIO leaders and EU officials at considering blocking its worthy boats off the Libyan gling in the central Medi-
Associated Press a news conference in Ber- ports to non-Italian NGO coast. terranean, Gentiloni said
ROME (AP) — Italy’s leader lin, Gentiloni said the grow- ships that pluck to safety While acknowledging that the job of caring for the
pressed his European Union ing number of arrivals “puts migrants from distressed European nations take part migrants “remains in one
allies Thursday to take in our welcome capability to dinghies and other unsea- in patrols to deter smug- country only” — Italy.q
more migrants, saying the a tough test.”
relentless arrival of tens of Italy has already taken in
thousands on Italy’s shores hundreds of thousands
is putting his country under of migrants in the last few
enormous strain. years. Some estimates say
He spoke after 10,000 mi- 220,000 migrants could
grants were pulled to safe- land in Italy by the end of
ty from the Mediterranean 2017.
Sea in the last few days In addition to those who
alone and were heading arrive, over 2,000 migrants
to Italy. have died trying to cross
With an election due in less the Mediterranean this
than a year, political pres- year already, according to
sure is building on Italian the U.N.
Premier Paolo Gentiloni’s “It’s a country under pres-
center-left government to sure, and we ask the help
push for relief from fellow of our European allies,”
EU nations. Gentiloni said, when asked
Flanked by EU national about reports that Italy is