Killed in Moscow known priest Daniel Sysoev

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35-year-old priest was shot dead in the temple, located at ul Moskvorechye, 4, late on 19 November. A criminal wearing a mask entered the temple, where there were parishioners, and loudly asked the abbot by the name. When my father went out, the attacker, a young man, presumably, Caucasian, shot him in the head and chest from the 9-mm gun, and shot in the chest assistant abbot of 41-year-old Vladimir STREL'BITSKAIA then fled on foot from the scene. The two clergymen were taken to parishioners in cars to a nearby hospital, where Sysoev died on the operating table.

The most probable version of the murder of the abbot of the temple of St. Thomas in Moscow, Daniel Sysoeva is his missionary activities among non-Orthodox population. This is the Interfax news agency said a source in law enforcement bodies of the capital.

As the RIA Novosti news agency arrived at the temple of the head of investigation department of the UPC Russia in Moscow, Anatoly Bagmet, the basic version of the murder, on the fact that criminal proceedings have been committed on religious grounds.

Channel Interfax added that the recent father of Daniel, had received threats by phone and e-mail about the physical extermination of some extremist organizations, because of which even approached the FSB. "The latest threat came Sysoev in early October. Unknown phoned him and said that he was sentenced to death" - told the agency. In one version, the father could be killed by a sect of so-called "Slavic Neopaganism" Gentiles. As established investigators, shortly before the crime killer called the mobile phone to his father Daniel, to ascertain whether he would be in the church.

Priest Daniel Sysoev was known as a theologian, who was in constant dispute with the extremist branch of Islam. He was the author of such works as "Marriage to a Muslim" and "The Orthodox response to Islam". Father Daniel founded a school in Moscow street preachers, and also helped in the organization of the same school in Saratov, Ulyanovsk and Murmansk. The first threat, he began to receive an additional four years ago after a public dispute with a former Orthodox priest Vyacheslav Polosin, accepted Islam. In Daniel Sysoeva survived by his wife and three children.

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