Two Orthodox priests were beaten in the Tver region

On the night of 27 On July 28, 2011, in the village of Maksatikha, Tver Region, Orthodox Christians were beaten up in a fight. priests - cleric of the Church of the Savior Igor Gribanovsky and rector of the Kazan Church in the village of Mednoe Igor Sedov.

Incident occurred near the cafe "Afanasy". Journalists report that the priests were drunk and molested the girls, for which they suffered.

One of participants in the fight was detained. The clergy applied for medical help to the district hospital in Udomlya.

According to the priests, they were beaten with a baseball bat for no reason.

Commenting on the incident, representatives of the Tver diocese stated that “ they have already carried out an appropriate check and completely convinced that the priests were absolutely sober and on their part there were no violations .”

At the police station, the question of the (in) sobriety of the clergy was answered evasively: " We cannot say who was drunk and who was sober. In the hospital, the priests did not take such tests, but young people who attacked them with bats, we have not yet established. More precisely, so far only one has been detained, interrogated and released. clear answer, why he started a fight we never got. But we know that people who attacked the priests, it was a maximum of 19-20 years .

Sources

• Defending their girls, young people got into a fight in the middle of the night with the priests of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate in the Tver region // Portal-Credo.ru. 2011. July 29.
• Two priests attacked in Tver region // Russian line. 2011. July 29.