In St. Petersburg on the City Day, opposition detention was held

In St. Petersburg, on the City Day, the detention of representatives of the opposition conducting an unlimited protest on the art Square was held. A formal reason was that they supposedly litter. Later, the leader of the St. Petersburg oppositionists Olga Kournosov - for no explanation of the reasons, a few minutes before the start of the “Test Walk” campaign, was detained during the day.

According to Fontanka, one of the participants in the action by Nikita Sorokin, in the morning the police arrived at the art Square, where the opposition camp moved from the Admiralty yesterday from the Admiralty.

The basis for detention, according to preliminary data, was a violation of legislation on improvement. In addition, in relation to one of the detainees, a duct was drawn up under an article on disobedience to the legal requirements of a police officer. At the same time, the detainee himself assures that he was just trying to find out what was happening.

The detainees, the exact number of which is still unknown, were placed in a car zak on the corner of Zhukovsky and Mayakovsky streets. How many detainees are still unknown. Things left in the square are planned to be taken out in the near future.

On Sunday, the St. Petersburg opposition planned the next "control walk" around the city.