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The police and riot police did not violate the law during the "marsh of the disagreements" in St. Petersburg on April 15, the city prosecutor said. "The actions of the police to suppress illegal actions by the participants in the public event were undertaken in reasonably," the prosecutor’s response to a statement on violations of the law from police officers said. The text of the document gives the movement "For human rights".

According to the prosecutor’s office, the unrest was provoked by a “group of people of about 60 people with the flags of the activists of the national association“ National-Bolshevik Party ”. These people, as they say in the document,“ made an attempt to endure the cordon and organize the procession inconsistent with the government. ”At the same time, they, according to the prosecutor's office,“ cried out the virals of the provocative The contents, various objects (bottles, sticks) threw at the police officers. "

The document notes that OMON employees detained "violators and persons who joined them." Human rights activists emphasize that "the police and the prosecutor's office created a new category of citizens to be detained - persons who joined the violators."

Participants in the "Marsh of the Disagnutors" indicate that there were no attempts to break through the cordon, that the police and riot police after the end of the rally blocked all the exits from the square and began to beat people who were trapped with rubber batons. Witnesses claim that this beating was planned in advance. In particular, one of the organizers of the action Sergey Gulyaev, who was beaten by policemen and then hospitalized, said in an interview with the faces and then hospitalized.