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Madly madness
The judge of the Zamoskvoretsky district court Lyudmila Moskalenko sent Mikhail Kosenko for forced treatment to a general psychiatric hospital, reports RAPSI from the courtroom. The “swamp prisoner” was charged with participation in the riots ”and“ the use of violence that is dangerous to life and health in relation to a representative of the authorities ”(Article 212 and part 2 of article 318 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Judge Moskalenko agreed with the prosecution on both articles, ignoring all the arguments of the defense. By a decision of the court, Kosenko was exempted from criminal liability in connection with a psychiatric diagnosis. The verdict will be appealed.
The term of stay in a psychiatric hospital may extend every six months on the basis of the conclusion of a medical commission.
At the Zamoskvoretsky court, participants in the action were detained in support of Kosenko, the correspondent of the "faces" reports. About 16 o’clock the police detained several people for the fact that they, along with the other gathered, chanted "freedom!" When it became known that the verdict is a guilty, the activists stretched two banners on the steps of the court and lit a fire. One participant in the action was riveted to the railing at the entrance, the police cut a chain. In total, eight people were detained, five of them were left for the night in the police.
The announcement of the verdict of Kosenko began after 14 hours. By this time, the courtyard of the court was filled with people, the line for the entrance stretched to the quarter. A series of single pickets with posters in defense of Kosenko took place at the court. During the first two hours, the police did not interfere with the picketers. The court has auto -zaks and police buses.
Alexey Navalny, Lyudmila Alekseeva, Oleg Orlov, Olga Romanova, and other public figures came to support Kosenko. Relatives of the accused in the Twelve case also came to the court.
When Kosenko was taken to court, the audience met him with applause. When asked about what he expects from the sentence, Kosenko replied that he would appeal him. In the Hall of the Politsek court, they met “Freedom!”, And the prosecutor shouted “Shame!”
Video Dmitry Zykova:
Kosenko sentence: protest by the court
First comments. Dmitry Borco's video:
Kosenko sentence: Reaction of the participants in the process
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Single pickets in Kosenko’s defense also took place in St. Petersburg - near the Gostiny Dvor and on the embankment of the Griboedov channel, Rosbalt reports.
Independent observers recorded in the case of Kosenko numerous violations of the right to a fair court , Amnesty International recognized Kosenko as a prisoner of conscience .
According to the prosecution, on May 6, 2012, Kosenko participated in the "riots" on Bolotnaya Square and caused bodily harm to the riot police Alexander Kazmin. Kosenko in his last word emphasized the political character of the "swamp business". He asked the court to consider him sane.
38-year-old Kosenko has been in custody since June 8, 2012. Since 1999, he has a II group of disability in a mental illness that developed in him after a contusion received in the army.
The requirement of the prosecutor of compulsory treatment is based on the results of the examination conducted by the employees of the Serbian Institute. Kosenko tightened the diagnosis based on the materials of the investigation. Independent experts subjected this examination sharply criticism .
The judicial investigation in the case of the "Swamp Prisoner" ended on September 27. Then the judge of the Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow Lyudmila Moskalenko introduced the report of the Public Commission to the case file following an independent investigation of events on May 6, 2012. In addition, photo tables with a video shot by a Novaya Gazeta correspondent were attached. They can see that Kosenko was somewhat away from the place of the incident with Kazmin. At the same time, the judge refused to request a video made from a police helicopter, as well as primary medical documents on Kazmin's injury.
At a meeting on September 25, the judge introduced a video to the case materials , made by a witness to Leonid Bedelizov. In the video, which has long been published on YouTube, an episode is captured when Kazmin was thrown to the ground. It is clearly seen that at that moment Kosenko is 3-4 meters from the scene. Earlier, the judge refused to attach the video as "received by non -subject."
A day earlier, the court refused to conduct a re -psychiatric examination of Kosenko .
On September 13, riot police, Roman Puzikov, acting as a witness to the prosecution, said he could not identify the defendant . Puzikov also said that he did not see how his colleague Kazmin was hit.
In the future, however, the riot police, under the pressure of the prosecutor, disaded his statement, saying that he recognized Kazmin and Kosenko on the story of the video from the case file. Immediately after that, he answered the question of defense that he could not find out at the personnel demonstrated during the meeting.
On July 22, Casmin did not recognize the demonstrator attacking him in Kosenko. Riot police said that the accused was not familiar to him. He also remarked: "In the video, I did not see the person in a red shirt (presumably Kosenko) beat me - he just stood nearby."
“Even if it was Kosenko that was injured, I don’t want to be evil,” Kazmin added. “I don’t want Comrade Kosenko to sit in prison.”