In anticipation of the verdict: Stepan Zimin

Prior to the sentencing to the accused in the “eight”, allocated from the “swamp business”, there were two days left. ATS-Info continues a project dedicated to today's political prisoner; His first heroes are eight people, arrested from May to October 2012, accused of participating in the riots, allegedly taking place on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012, and in the application of violence to representatives of the authorities - police officers and fighters who dispersed the demonstrators.

Stepan Zimi was asked by prosecutors to be sentenced to five and a half years in prison.

The last word of Stepan Zimina :

“Dear court, dear participants in the process! Thank you for the fact that for almost eight months, namely, our trial lasts so much, pay us such increased attention. I thought for a long time what to say in the last word, I decided to limit myself only to facts and evidence according to the articles sane, since there were enough lyrical reasoning and retreats.

Of course, during the investigation and court hearings I formed an opinion about everything that was happening. I will prefer to keep it with me. I will immediately make a reservation that I do not hope for an acquittal-not because I consider myself somehow involved in these articles of the Criminal Code, in any case. It’s just that the practice is such that our judicial system pronounces acquittal sentences with a number of less than half a percent, and I do not think that I will get into this number. So, I am accused of two crimes (part 2 of Article 212, part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code). However, I do not consider myself guilty. I am charged with the fact that I allegedly abandoned a piece of asphalt, who fell into the Sergeant of the Kuvatov police and thereby caused him pain that is not dangerous for his life and health. Moreover, this episode serves as evidence of the state prosecution under two articles. Kuvatov was repeatedly interrogated and each time his testimony differed from the previous ones. As a result, he stated that a fracture of his finger was formed from his asphalt with a piece of asphalt, which was completely refuted by the conclusion of the forensic medical examination, conducted twice. The fracture of the finger was obtained during a stretching-excerled external influence. Which completely excludes the script with the stone. Kuvatov’s testimony is not confirmed by his colleagues in the detention group - Kuvshinnikov and Litvinov.

I want to mention the employee OMON Shubich, who was interrogated as a witness. In his testimony, he says that he saw how Sergeant Kuvatov turned his finger with metal barriers.

At the time of the above episode, I was already in a car carrier on the way to the department. I confirm my presence in the square, I also do not exclude that Kuvatov and his detention group delayed me at the authorized rally. Only now I did not apply any violence against police officers on Bolotnaya Square. Even to me, who does not have a legal education, after familiarization with all the materials of the case and comparing all the facts, it becomes clear, as a result of what circumstances a trauma of my victim was received. Otherwise, we all saw and heard in numerous videos and testimonies of witnesses on the part of protection about excessive cruelty and the rigidity of riot police in the square. We are judged for mass riots using violence, although the police themselves were the main source of violence at this mass event. In my opinion, the complete picture of what happened to the court is presented, and, in my opinion, there are no obstacles to the only right and fair decision. ”