The case of Nizhny Novgorod anti-fascists was returned to the prosecutor's office

October 18, 2012 Nizhny Novgorod the district court returned the Antifa-RASH case to the prosecutor's office to eliminate violations that prevented consider the case on the merits. According to the defendants' lawyers, the court took into account the arguments of the defense, pointing out that in the charge does not contain any indication of the specific actions of the defendants, which would talked about their participation in the extremist community, there is no evidence of only the commission of extremist actions by them, but even the preparation of such. IN In such a situation, the court considered it impossible to pass a sentence and gave the prosecutor's office a chance present more convincing evidence of the guilt of anti-fascists.

Recall that the process in the case of local activists antifa movement Artyom Bystrov, Pavel Krivonosov, Oleg Gembaruka, Albert Gainutdinov and Dmitry Kolesov began in Nizhny Novgorod in March 2012. They were accused under Part 2 of Art. 282.1 of the Criminal Code (participation in an extremist community), part 2 of Art. 213 (hooliganism committed by an organized group of persons or associated with resistance to a representative of the authorities), paragraph "b" part 2 Art. 115 and p. "b" part 2 of Art. 116 (respectively, intentional infliction slight bodily harm and beatings motivated by hatred or enmity towards social group), taking into account Part 3. Art. 35 (committing a crime organized group). All defendants in the case were charged with three episodes clashes with "representatives of social groups of skinheads, football fans" , but the victim as a result of collisions asked the referee to stop proceedings in this part in connection with the reconciliation of the parties. Another witness for the prosecution testified in court that he testified against the defendants under pressure from the staff of the local ETC. However, the prosecutor demanded 5 years in prison for Krivonosov, for Gembaruk - a fine of 20 thousand rubles and 3 years, for Kolesov - 4 years in prison.

Sources

• Victory: The court returned the "Antifa-RASH case" to the prosecutor to eliminate violations // Open news agency. 2012. October 18.