A single picketer Crimean Tatar girl was torn her poster against the Khan’s Palace destruction in Bakhchisaray

In Bakhchisaray, near the Khan’s palace there came out with a single picket Crimean Tatar girl, Elmaz Akimova.

Lawyer Emil Kurbetinov wrote about this on February 25 on Facebook.

Akimova held a poster “Hands off the Khan’s Palace”. During her single picket, two unknown people came to the girl and tore up the poster. As to the public organization «Krymskaya Solidarnost», this girl is now in the Bakhchisaray police station, where she writes a complaint together with civil defenders.

«According to activists, the bypassers called police when they saw how strangers torn the poster».

On February 19, 2018 the Crimean human rights activists filed an application to the Main Investigation Department of the Russian Federation Investigation Committee in Crimea in connection with the restoration work in the Khan’s Palace in Bakhchisaray.

As to the website «15 minutes», on February 5, 2018 the Crimean committee on interethnic relations and deported citizens ex-head, Edem Dudakov published new evidence of the Khan’s Palace destruction by the invaders in Bakhchisaray. According to Dudakov, the company, engaged in restoration work of the palace and in defiance of the requirements of the Venice Charter on the preservation and restoration of monuments and landmarks, destroyed ancient building elements. As to the ex-head, the palace has turned into a stylized props.

As you know, the Russian Federation in Crimea began the so-called restoration works in the Khan Palace in Bakhchisaray. According to experts, the occupants actually destroy the palace.

In October 2017, journalist Osman Pashayev published photos on Facebook showing the consequences of the restoration work in the Khan’s palace. Later Pashayev reported that the occupants had removed the tile from the Buyuk Khan Jami (Big Khan Mosque) building and damaged 18th-century murals, and the Khan’s palace face had been treated with chemicals, which caused cracks along the walls. He noted that non-specialists and ordinary builders were working on the historical, cultural and universal significance monument restoration.

On January 9, 2018 it became known that the restoration works in the Khan’s Palace in Crimea there engaged in a Russian company specializing in the construction “till the end”.

Elmira Ablyalimova, the ex-head of the Bakhchsarai Historical and Cultural Reserve, said that the Khan’s palace required restoration even before annexation, but these works currently occurred in the palace could not be called restoration:

«The Khan’s Palace building has indeed been in need of restoration work for a long time. However, it does not need any repair, but just the restoration work, the main principle of which is not to damage the monument».