On the afternoon of July 27, 2018, Mikhail Khachaturan (57) came home to the apartment he shared with his three teenage daughters in a block of flats along the huge ring road around Moscow.
As so many times before, he scolded his daughters, this time for messing around in the apartment.
As so many times before, he became violent, this time with pepper spray.
As so many times before, he sat down in the easy chair afterwards, this time for the last time.
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Stitched over 30 times
Some time later, one of the sisters called the police. She said her name was Angelina, and through tears she explained that her father Mikhail had attacked her while he was drunk.
She acted in self-defense, she said, and asked police to come.
When the Moscow police arrived, 57-year-old Mikhail lay in a pool of his own blood in the stairwell to the old Soviet bloc. He had been stabbed more than 30 times.
In the throat, in the stomach, in the heart.
Shortly afterwards, not only Angelina (18) was arrested, but also sisters Marija (17) and Krestina (19).
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Changed explanation
In questioning by police, Angelina’s explanation cracked.
It was not her father who attacked her, but she and Marija who had attacked him, as he lay in the easy chair and slept.
Krestina was lying in the room, unconscious after an asthmatic attack triggered by the pepper spray her father had used against her, when she heard the screams, the sisters said.
Krestina thought her father had attacked the sisters again, and ran into the living room and used the pepper spray on her father. Then she realized what was really happening.
While Krestina lay in the room, Marija and Angelina decided that enough was enough.
The father not only used violence against the sisters, he tortured them and sexually abused them for many, many years, the sisters explained to the police, and insisted:
They acted in self-defense.
