Vladimir Shirokov, a resident of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug in Nizhnevartovsk, who took his three-year-old son hostage, was arrested for two months. It has been reported TASS With reference to the Nizhnevartovsk City Court.
The court said, “The court has given a precautionary measure in the form of a two-month detention for the defendants.”
Formerly Committee of Inquiry suggested the court will choose arrest and detention as a measure of restraint for Shirokov.
Before that, Shirokov aforementionedshooting at passers-by for being fired.
On the morning of March 9, Vladimir Shirokov locked himself in an apartment with a three-year-old boy and began to threaten suicide. When the security forces tried to open the door, the man started shooting from the balcony with a shotgun. He demanded to contact the head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Alexander Bastrykin and the head of one of the Russian banks.