The Investigative Committee of the Sverdlovsk Region opened a criminal case against a man who caught and insulted a schoolboy because of his hat with the letter Z. knowledgeable department press office.
“According to the investigation, the suspect committed illegal acts against a boy born in 2011 with hooligan motives in one of the houses on Volgogradskaya Street in Yekaterinburg on April 21,” the Regional Investigative Committee said in a statement. .
A criminal case was initiated under Part 1 of Art. 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation – hooliganism. The maximum penalties under this article are a fine of up to 500 thousand rubles or a correctional work up to two years or a prison sentence of 5 years.
How writer On the Yekaterinburg portal E1, the incident occurred last Friday near the house number 35 on Volgogradskaya street. An 11-year-old boy in a black hat with the letter Z came out of the entrance. Meanwhile, two men were carrying furniture nearby. The symbol in the title angered one of them and he took the boy by the hand and started swearing. The last part of the conflict fell on the camera lens at the entrance.
The man especially advised the boy to put his hat on his anus, asked him to call his parents, whom he called stupid. The partner coming out of the entrance asked what it was. To this, the suspect obscenely said that the boy was walking in a hat with the letter Z. Partner tried to justify the student’s parents dressing him like that. But the man did not calm down.
The boy’s mother said that the boy went to a teacher that day, he was in the fifth grade. According to the woman, her son managed to escape from the man’s grasp and the man still cursed obscenely behind him. However, he noted that the suspect was sober. The boy returned home in tears and was frightened.
The woman went to the police, and according to her, the police reluctantly accepted the statement. “They asked if there was a knife or something. I don’t think they will. I am very afraid for my son. Dad is away. “Anything can happen to us when there are so many incompetent people walking around,” my mother said.
According to him, the father of the injured boy is a soldier and is currently in the special operations zone in Ukraine. The police eventually accepted the statement, and the Investigative Committee joined as the incident reverberated on social networks and the media.
On April 25, the regional directorate of the Ministry of Interior reported that they had found and detained a 56-year-old man.
“Detectives involved OMON fighters of the regional National Guard in the operation to arrest him. Police spokesman Valery Gorelykh took someone who did not like the symbol of the NVO to a collective garden with the symbolic name “Friendship”, located in the Chkalovsky district of the regional center.
He said that the detained person previously worked in the construction industry, was not convicted and was not registered with a psychiatrist. He did not know the student’s family. He described the involvement of OMON in Gorelykh’s arrest as “standard procedure”.
Later, England released a video in which the detainee on camera apologized to the boy and his family. “I gave the child a wrong explanation. I sincerely apologize for that, from the bottom of my heart. I repent of my deeds and admit that I was wrong,” the man says.