DSPA members were detained at a rally in St. Petersburg

On September 3, 2005, at a rally organized by the Nashi movement in St. Petersburg, 2 members of the Nashi Resistance Movement were detained. Petra Alekseeva (DSPA) and a girl from the St. Petersburg League of Anarchists, for distributing "anti-Russian leaflets".

At the same time, employees of the 16th police department of the Vasileostrovsky district of St. Petersburg did not specify what is meant by "anti-Russian content."

It is reported that the protesters beat one of the members of the DSPA Valov, after which he was detained.

The detainees were photographed and fingerprinted. According to the DSPA activists themselves, initially they were accused of a criminal offense, but then they were accused of "petty hooliganism": as a result, it was recorded in the detention book that people were brought from the rally for distributing leaflets, and from the protocols it followed that they were taken to the police for the fact that "being in a state of intoxication, they swore at the police officers with foul language" . The detainees refused to sign the protocol and were released after 2 hours.

Sources

• "Ours" beat a representative of the Petr Alekseev Resistance Movement, after which he was detained by the police // ZAKS.ru. 2005. September 3.
• St. Petersburg: we were not silent // Offline action. 2005. September 4th.