In the Rostov region, a group of youths attacked and beat three people in front of numerous witnesses. But the criminal case, according to the portal 161.ruwas never initiated in their respect.
On the evening of February 11, three 22-year-old residents of Bataysk were attacked by teenagers aged 14 and 16 and their 19-year-old friends. It was he who threatened the victims and promised to “smash their faces” at them. Later, several more acquaintances of the intruders, who began to provoke the youth by dressing negatively towards their relatives, took part in the showdown. When the offended young man answered his opponent rudely, he hit his friend in the face and broke several of his teeth. The victim lost consciousness and fell to the ground, and when he was able to stand up, strangers began beating him again. An acquaintance of the victim stood up for him, but was also beaten by a crowd of aggressive teenagers. The oldest of the attackers broke a glass bottle and threatened to kill the last survivor.
Her sister, who finally noticed the fight from the window, informed the elders about the situation, frightened the intruders who ran into the street and found her children covered in blood. The police did not come upon the call and the youths returned to their places and tried to attack the victims again. Numerous eyewitnesses watched the fight, one of whom showed photographs of the beatings to their families and gave a statement and applied to the police. That same evening, law enforcement invited the two attackers to speak with their parents. However, according to reports, on May 29, local police refused to file a criminal case for the third time, despite the decision of the city prosecutor’s office, which sided with the victims. Then they applied to the district attorney’s office.
During these months, one of the victims was receiving treatment for an open craniocerebral injury, bruising on the top of his head, and a broken nose. He also had a broken tooth and had two friends. All three victims suffered concussions. At the same time, forensic experts in the results characterized the injuries as injuries with minor damage to health. However, according to the relevant article, minors cannot be prosecuted by law.
The beaten teenager’s father launched his own investigation and learned that among the attackers were 15 youths from different parts of the city, some of whom were engaged in martial arts. According to their parents, they consider themselves members of an organized crime syndicate. Other townspeople say that young people sometimes receive pocket money from schoolchildren.
At the same time, the police took statements from the suspects, who they claimed had instigated the conflict by the applicants themselves. Another witness described the victims as “the instigators of the fight.” Police also said it was impossible to determine the exact circumstances of the brawl due to “the distance from the CCTV cameras and the dark hour of the day”.
According to one of the victims, his young rival began to threaten him a few weeks after the fight for a statement he made to the internal affairs bodies.
In July, in the Tula region, friends of a schoolgirl took a man who raped her into the forest. There they beat him badly and after a while they finished him.