The "Palace Coup" case has been dropped again

In July 2012 year it became known that on May 23, 2012, the investigator of the Investigative Department for to the Central GSU of the ICR for St. Petersburg V. Rud issued a resolution on termination of the criminal case against activists of the art group "Voina" Oleg Vorotnikov and Leonid Nikolaev under Part 2 of Art. 213 (hooliganism motivated by hate) and paragraph "b" part 1 of Art. 213 (hooliganism, committed by a group of persons by prior agreement or by an organized group) due to the absence of signs of a crime in their actions.

In the resolution on the termination of the case noted , it was also that the grounds for retraining the case for hours. 1 Article. 167 of the Criminal Code ("Deliberate destruction or damage to someone else's property, if these acts entailed causing significant damage") is not available, since the damage caused in during the action "Palace coup" (8002 rubles) "is not significant."

three times before Recall that the case has already been closed . The last decision to dismiss the case was issued Investigator of the Investigation Department for the Central District of the Main Investigation Department of the RF IC for St. Petersburg in the absence of corpus delicti, but then the prosecutor's office of St. Petersburg did not confirmed the decision and returned the case to the Investigative Committee.

Sources

• Palace coup case dismissed for the fourth time // Free War. 2012. July 1.