Russian criminals pardoned after fighting with Wagner militia

In northwestern Russia, the village of Krestssy (Veliky Novgrod region) was the scene of a terrible murder ten years ago. In his small wooden house, a quiet 28-year-old judge was tortured all night before finally being killed. Her cousin found her lifeless body the next morning. “I arrived in this house and I found my cousin on the ground, killed. He had blood everywhere”, she testifies with a covered face. The perpetrator, Stanislas Bogdanov, was immediately identified and sentenced to 23 years in prison. Krestssy then regained her tranquility.

A shock for the families of the victims

In a video that emerged in the fall, we recognize Stanislas Bogdanov who receives the congratulations of the leader of the militia Wagner. In prison, the criminal received a proposal: freedom if he engages for six months as a mercenary for Wagner in Ukraine. After eight days at the front, he was injured and had his leg amputated. He is now free and decorated with the medal of courage. A shock for the cousin of the victim. “He came out like a hero, that’s what hurts”, she laments. Wagner declined to release the number of prisoners released. Vladimir Putin himself even decorated a violent robber on his return from the front.