11-08-2012, 04:59 PM
The ‘hypnosis' theory
Another theory that rests on what caused Yevsyukov to flip is that proposed by lawyer Yury Smykov, who represented other victims of Yevsyukov and who says an informant who identified himself as Alexander revealed a plot to take down the entire Interior Ministry by "hypnotising" Yevsyukov into going on the shooting spree.
Smykov, who said he himself thought that Yevsyukov was definitely not himself in the video footage shown of him in the supermarket, describes how he heard an audio recording detailing what transpired before the shooting.
Yevsyukov was apparently "programmed" by someone who put psychotropic substances in his drink during the party, Smykov said. Then, after visiting his apartment, he was picked up by an ambulance, given more substances, and hypnotised. Then he was let out of the ambulance, caught a cab that took him to the supermarket, shot the driver, and began shooting at others.
"As I was told, there was a plot... to take down [Interior Minister] Rashid Nurgaliyev," Smykov said, and Yevsyukov was just the kind of person the conspirators needed - brooding, quiet, and also corrupt.
Smykov testified in court, but was not taken seriously otherwise. Bushuyeva dismissed the theory as merely amusing, but said that Smykov may have been raising the right questions.
Yevsyukov, she said, had been diagnosed with psychopathic tendencies in childhood, while epilepsy ran in his family. He had been known to have memory lapses before. While medical tests found only alcohol in his blood, she says a proper investigation into other substances - or other forms of pressure - was never really conducted.
"Someone could have put something into his drink, just out of malice," she said.
And where that malice came from was another unanswered question.
Another theory that rests on what caused Yevsyukov to flip is that proposed by lawyer Yury Smykov, who represented other victims of Yevsyukov and who says an informant who identified himself as Alexander revealed a plot to take down the entire Interior Ministry by "hypnotising" Yevsyukov into going on the shooting spree.
Smykov, who said he himself thought that Yevsyukov was definitely not himself in the video footage shown of him in the supermarket, describes how he heard an audio recording detailing what transpired before the shooting.
Yevsyukov was apparently "programmed" by someone who put psychotropic substances in his drink during the party, Smykov said. Then, after visiting his apartment, he was picked up by an ambulance, given more substances, and hypnotised. Then he was let out of the ambulance, caught a cab that took him to the supermarket, shot the driver, and began shooting at others.
"As I was told, there was a plot... to take down [Interior Minister] Rashid Nurgaliyev," Smykov said, and Yevsyukov was just the kind of person the conspirators needed - brooding, quiet, and also corrupt.
Smykov testified in court, but was not taken seriously otherwise. Bushuyeva dismissed the theory as merely amusing, but said that Smykov may have been raising the right questions.
Yevsyukov, she said, had been diagnosed with psychopathic tendencies in childhood, while epilepsy ran in his family. He had been known to have memory lapses before. While medical tests found only alcohol in his blood, she says a proper investigation into other substances - or other forms of pressure - was never really conducted.
"Someone could have put something into his drink, just out of malice," she said.
And where that malice came from was another unanswered question.
