“Men are raiding. That’s all”: “barrelled” fighters prosecuted for fighting Anti-barrel activist spoke about a brawl with a traffic violation and therefore sued 19.10.2022, 20:46

In the suburbs, the police detained one of the members of a group of volunteers to fight the “obochechniki”, violators who were lurking around traffic jams on the roadside. On the M2 “Crimea” highway, an initiative group caused an accident with a car driven by a 39-year-old man, which subsequently caused bodily injuries. reported Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Moscow Region.

“According to available information, since 2021, those involved in the event in cars have actually

After setting a trap for drivers moving on the side of the road, it clamped to these vehicles and caused a traffic accident.

The 27-year-old, currently residing in Chekhov, was detained only as the first person involved in the criminal case. The Ministry of Interior found that “it started accidents with hooligan motives, provoked conflict situations and fights”.

The Chekhov city investigation department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia opened a criminal case under article 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Hooliganism”). An investigation was launched to identify and search for accomplices in the crime, other similar incidents are detected – the participants of the movement videotaped their fight with the “obochniks” and posted videos on the YouTube service.

Teachers from the high way

Until recently, in the Telegram messenger, “follower hunters” had an open channel where promotions were discussed and groups gathered for subsequent events.

Respectful Movement community activists (also participate in roadside raids) said in his social networks, the “anti-barrel worker” detained in Chekhov is Dmitry Cherepanov, who, according to his profile on the VKontakte social network, provides resource services for cars.

Dmitry Cherepanov driving a blue VAZ-2104 back in 2021 with “bowls” became the heroine of publications in the media about warriors.

“Road cleaners” and “barrel counters,” as activists call themselves, conduct raids in several groups with cameras and radios.

They themselves cross the side of the road, but keep the speed low to prevent other drivers from passing, and also try to “punish” drivers in the stream by jamming cars. Accidents lead to scandals and fights, they are filmed and posted on social networks.

Activists leave details in the descriptions of the videos to raise money from viewers for the needs of their activities.

Driver Dmitriy, one of those who fought against the pavements, told socialbites.ca that the precedent for the arrest of an activist from Chekhov will not affect like-minded people in any way – the fight on the roads will continue. Dmitry believes that the traffic police are ineffective in catching traffic violations.

“The conflict is [нарушитель] attacked himself and hit the man twice. There are no groupings. The men are raiding – they are holding the pavement. This much,

said. – We fight, and legally. The police are not interested in doing this, they all pass by the side of the road. Maybe they’re jealous that we’re doing their job.”

Network of like-minded people

There are dozens of popular bloggers on the Internet all over Russia trying to “teach” violating drivers by entering conflict situations with them. Activist Dmitry runs the YouTube channel “Defender of the Roadside”, where he posts his own videos with traffic violators. Those who participated in these raids gave them the nickname beddrills.

“I’m a long way gazelle that can’t stand the people walking on the sidewalk, the people on the road and other ignorant people on the road!” – he says in the description of his channel.

In one of Dmitry’s videos, the participants of the raid blocked the wayside, causing a conflict. As a result, pepper spray was sprayed in the face of one of the violators.

“This raid was tough. We did two laps. The first lap is relatively quiet. The second lap is rubbish. They blocked the roadside, and a beedrilla attacked our activist with his fists. Then when he saw us, he immediately got into his car. And got a reply. With the Boors – rudely, ”the participant of the raid In the title of the video, he tells about the adventures on the road.

The Right to Violence

According to Serhiy Radko, a lawyer for the “Freedom of Choice” auto movement, in a criminal case against “barrel opponents”, the authorities have made it clear that they do not intend to transfer the right to violence to self-declared law enforcement.

“I must say, such ‘robes’ have long sought a harsh response from the authorities,” he said.

According to him, the first preventive step was the liquidation of the Stopham movement as a legal entity.
But the activists did not understand the hint and continued their activities, which eventually forced the authorities to “shoot to kill”, Radko said, recalling to be arrested Participants of the StopHam movement in June of this year.

“What kind of warriors for the truth did not divorce – behind the previously mentioned “stophams” were fighters against smoking and “drinking” in public places, “against the lion”, “against the pig”. Now the “anti-barrel” joined this zoo. This “There’s something that unites the truth-tellers – by suppressing someone else’s violation, they often break the law themselves. At the same time, the penalty for their violation is often more severe than when they stop it.”

Radko added that such a provocation discredits the possibility of citizens participating in maintaining public order, since almost any such action turns into a brawl or fight.

Citizens who do not like the behavior of others should not replace the authorities,

Piotr Shkumatov, coordinator of the Blue Buckets social movement, agrees. There are cases widely known by Stopkham, where people were beaten for improper parking, he continued.

“I have an extremely negative attitude towards carts, but I do not engage in conflict with them and just take priority – I drive in my lane and do not let such drivers pass. Sooner or later there will be cameras to record the driving on the roadside to correct violations and the problem will go away by itself,” he said.

socialbites.ca appealed to the Chekhov department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs regarding the detention of a 27-year-old activist, the police did not provide information, citing the confidentiality of the investigation.