Marats Kasems wrote that the first instance court of Latvia has sentenced Sergejs Ņikitins, a citizen of Russia and Germany, to seven years in prison. According to Kasems, Ņikitins explained that the night vision devices and binoculars brought to Russia were intended for animal shelters, but the court did not accept this explanation. Kasems claimed that after the verdict was announced, Ņikitins accused Latvia and court officials of fascism, Nazism, and Russophobia. He also wrote that Ņikitins was comforted by Aleksandrs Giļmans and Alla Berezovska and that Ņikitins repeated allegations of hatred against Russians in Latvia, as well as appealed to the Kremlin for help in rescuing him. Kasems claimed that Ņikitins had already served a sentence in Germany for killing his wife while intoxicated and pointed out what he considered a characteristic prison tattoo of thieves on Ņikitins' finger. He asked whether Ņikitins would appeal the verdict and whether the realization that such people are not needed in Russia would come to him at the beginning or closer to the end of his sentence. #vatņiki #LatvijasTiesa #spriedumi #ņikitins #cietums #LatvijasTiesa #spriedumi #cietums (translated)
