Mairbek Vatchagaev, President of the Paris based Caucasian Studies Association (Association d’études Caucasiennes) has appealed in the name of his organization to Turkish authorities about the assassinations of Chechens in Turkey and asks for an effective investigation to identify the murderers.
Several North Caucasian diaspora organizations have published various condolences and condemnation messages after the assassination of Honorary Consul of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, Medet Unlu at his office in Ankara on May 22.
Local sources are reporting that in the Russian occupied Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, at least 50 school children and two teachers were poisoned by an unknown gas.
Benoit Desjardins, an inspiring, young filmmaker from Montreal is at the Cannes Film Festival to show his new shortfilm, “Welcome Yankee” which is about a Chechen family’s story.
The Austrian newspaper “Die Oberösterreichischen Nachrichten” has reported that a Chechen mother and her two children are facing extradition from Austria.
The Istanbul Public Prosecution Office on Counter- Terrorism has sent the investigation files on the assassination of three Chechen asylum seekers in Istanbul in September 2011, to a district public prosecution office.
The State Border Committee of Belarus has reported that 22 Chechen asylum seekers tried to cross the border into Lithuania, but most of them did not make it.
Local sources have reported that a group of Chechen refugees gathered in front of the Swedish Parliament building in Stockholm to protest the decision to extradite a former resistance fighter.
The largest new Chechen diaspora in Europe is in Austria. After the terrorist attack in Boston and the identification of the suspects as ethnic Chechens, they are feeling insecure.
The Regional German newspaper “Westfalen-Blatt” has reported that more than 670 Chechen asylum seekers have arrived in the city of Biefeld from Poland, since the beginning of 2013.
The Chechen Youth Center in Poland known as “Sintar”, came together after the tragic incident in Boston to show their solidarity with the American people.