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On the night of May 9, Alexei Navalny was searched in the Kirov headquarters and campaign materials were seized. Activist Roman Pereverzev led a live broadcast from a mobile phone

Investigators in the Kirov office of Navalny on the night of May 8 to 9, 2013,

“About 22 hours, when five people were left in the headquarters, several police officers and two Kirov investigators entered us - Daria Bashorina and Elena Sokelina. They said that a certain “vigilant citizen” warned them by phone: there are extremist materials in the headquarters and extremist shares are being prepared. Therefore, they should check the “crime scene,” said Pereverzev The New Times. Decisions of the court or other documents authorizing such a visit did not present law enforcement officers, explaining that they did not even come with a search, but with the inspection.

Until four in the morning, investigators sorted through campaign products. Listen and 400 copies of the newspaper in support of Navalny, as well as the book of Boris Nemtsov “The Life of the Slave on Galers” and the Putin -Thief Banner, were seized. The newspaper, which activists planned to distribute in the city, apparently, was the main goal of law enforcement officers. “They hoped that they would confiscate everything without observing formalities, but the lawyers called by us forced them to conduct an inventory of the seized,” says Pereverzev. But how did it happen that the video was allowed? It turns out that the activist simply referred to the law “On the Police”, which does not prohibit the removal of employees during the performance of their duties. The police were confused and decided not to argue.

On what basis did the investigators come at night? And what is the difference between an inspection and a search? “A search in a living room is carried out with the sanction of the court, and in a non -residential premises - without, followed by a notification of the prosecutor. The faces here are rather unsteady, so those who searched, have great freedom for the maneuver, but by the way everything took place at the headquarters of Alexei Navalny, in fact it was a search, ”said lawyer Dmitry Agranovsky. According to him, when examining the scene, objects with traces of the crime are usually removed. The Code of Criminal Procedure says that police officers can come at night in cases that do not require delay. Should you understand that from now on the poster against the current government is a crime? Or is he only in the office of Navalny?