Performance with a sledgehammer

Pyotr Verzilov was given 15 days just in case: why will this go down in the history of contemporary art

The publisher of Mediazons Peter Verzilov received fifteen days of arrest. Verzilov’s offense officially consisted in the fact that he was obscenely cursing on the street. And now, believe or not, the vigilant and philologically savvy law enforcement officers drew attention to such a disgrace, completely inappropriate on the eve of the parade and zero, and decided Verzilov to attract and arrest.

On the one hand, everyone breathed a sigh of relief: it is good that not a criminal case. On the other hand, the story about the arrest for the street mat - of the most ridiculous in a series of affairs against political activists.

It seems that Verzilov was literally nothing to present according to the laws of the Russian Federation.

Even on July 27 last year, during the protest on the eve of the elections to the Moscow City Duma, he was not in the city.

As Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev liked to say, before us is a short story: by 2020, a citizen of Russia and a public figure who has a lawyer and support from the side of society can be pulled out of the apartment in the center of Moscow, breaking the door with a sledgehammer, taking away in an unknown direction, hold without communication with the outside world for half a day, sorting out all the options, and then it can be accused, and then say that the criminal ones are in criminal He is only a witness to the cases (in the framework of the Moscow Case), in extremism in Instagram, Storis (an extremely dangerous place for the statehood of the Russian Federation) is also not accused of him, but the mat on the street is quite drawn to arrest before the beginning of July.

Let's fix it: the abuse on the street is confirmed exclusively by the testimony of the police, and, therefore, Verzilov was arrested for anything, and we are able to rejoice in this circumstance.

Fifteen days, and not 5 years, what is it about, in fact?

Verzilov himself believes that he became a victim of a police provocation: the young man attacked him on the street to provoke a fight. The provocation failed, but the imaginary mat was enough for "petty hooliganism." It is known about the provocateur that he is not interested in politics, but he had problems with the police due to drugs.

On the day of detention, the version appeared on the Internet that Verzilov could actually abduct from the house due to the upcoming action during the military parade. During the passage of heavy equipment in Tverskaya, Verzilov supposedly had to stand in front of the walking tank and thereby repeat the famous photo of 1989 from Tiananmen Square.

Verzilov himself denies that he was preparing some stocks. However, the corporal of the EE Center, whose employee today walks with a sledgehammer around Moscow and opens the apartments of criminal artists (after Verzilov they broke the door of the owner of the gallery Art4, where the exhibition of the works of Oleg Navalny is taking place), will go down in the history of contemporary art.

Verzilov, according to some, wanted to make only a quote for a well -known historical frame, which became a symbol of movement against the dictatorship in the world.

And it turned out better: a guy with a sledgehammer as an agent of an authoritative state punishes him for anti -war thought crime.

Even the idea of ​​blocking the road of a tank was declared criminal in Russia in 2020.

Tiananmen around the world is associated exclusively with a photograph of a guy with a string bag, as they say, accidentally blocked the road with a tank column. It will be good if endless military parades will be associated once only with opening apartments with sledgehammer in the morning.

Another option is that Verzilov did not really plan anything and did not make any mental attempts to block the road. In this situation, he was broken by the door simply out of false anxiety that he could have thought something like that: after all, it was Surely Verzilov who ran in a police form during the Football World Cup in 2018.

And we need to reset quietly now, without raising our eyes.