Young people who accused the Viciebsk OMON in the beating, received fines from 5 to 15 basic units. This decision was made on August 24 by the court of Pervomaisky district of the regional center. The trial for this administrative case, chaired by Judge Natalia Korablina, was taking place from August 8, writes Tut.by.
Two men – Vladislav Kovalenko and Sergei Prudnikov – were fined five base units (115 rubles). Another three – Vladimir Egorov, Sergei Gorelikov and Dmitry Rybakov – will have to pay 15 base units each (345 rubles).
According to police officers who appeared at the trial witnesses, Kovalenko and Prudnikov did not resist during the detention, they sat in the official car to go to a medical examination, and then to the police department. These men were charged under article 17.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (petty hooliganism).
Yegorov, Gorelikov and Rybakov were also charged with disobeying the demands of the police (article 23.4 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). According to OMON officers, Egorov, Rybakov and Gorelikov did not obey their demands: "loudly cursed with a mat", became "in the fighting stance", "waved their hands". Therefore, as the riot policemen testified at the trial, these guys were forced to use physical force and special means – a gas can, rubber stick and handcuffs.
Recall that the incident that was considered by the court occurred approximately at three o'clock in the morning from 26 to 27 July on the outskirts of Viciebsk – near a public transport stop near the river port. Here was a company of five guys – Gorelikov, Egorov, Rybakov, Prudnikov, Kovalenko. They stood near the car, from the salon of which the music sounded. Hearing her, a police squad rode up to the company.
These are the only facts in which both sides come together – and five friends, and the police who detained them. Further readings diverge. Three fundamentally different points.
First. The company does not hide that among the five was sober only one – Sergei Gorelikov, the driver of the car owned by Sergei Prudnikov. But the guys claim that they drank beer before the police approached them. It happened in the bar "Korchaga". Then, after the closure of the institution, they came to the outskirts of Viciebsk, where they simply listened to music and did not drink alcohol. But the police "attributed" to them other people's glasses, which, according to friends, were lying at a stop.
According to the police, at the time of their arrival, the guys were holding plastic cups in their hands, and one of them was a bottle.
Second. Friends say that the place they chose to relax and listen to music is deserted. The riot policemen say that next to the stop, about 50 meters away, on Maxim Gorky Street there is an apartment building.
The third. The company's participants told at the trial that the police had made a strict detention. In the words of Sergei Gorelikov and Vladimir Egorov, they were "blown out" with a canister, beaten with truncheons. Gorelikov shot everything that was happening on the video in his mobile, so the gadget was taken away, the video was deleted, and the phone was smashed.
Egorov, in his words, the riot police broke their arm. In court, he filed a certificate from a doctor with a diagnosis of "fracture of the ulnar bone." In addition, Vladimir claims that on his hand he had a trace from a police officer. The photo with this trace was saved in the phone of one of the company's participants – Vladislav Kovalenko. Kovalenko showed this picture to the judge at the trial.
Traces of clubs on their faces and body Sergei Gorelikov and Vladimir Egorov posted on the Internet. They widely dispersed on social networks and sites. Young people also dropped beatings and appealed to the police department of the regional executive committee and the Investigative Committee, accusing the riot police of beatings.
The siloviks on the court explained that they "tried to find mutual understanding with these citizens", asked them to turn off the music and go home. But the guys continued to swear at mate, behave aggressively, tried to fight, grabbed them for uniforms. Then I had to call for reinforcements. After that, after repeated warnings, Egorov, Rybakov and Gorelikov had to use batons, gas and handcuffs.
But at the same time the militiamen claimed that they "acted only in accordance with the law." And they emphasized the court's attention to the fact that they did all the military actions only after "repeated warnings".
Gorelikov, Egorov, Prudnikov and Kovalenko reported that they intend to appeal the decision of the court.
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