Five activists of the Left Front were detained in Tula

In Tula, during the coordinated Pervomaisky demonstration, the employees of the Center for Combating Extremism detained five left -wing activists. This was reported by the OVD-Info.

Among the detainees are the coordinator of the local left front Dmitry Karasev, members of the organization Anton Drabik, Alexander Afanasyev, Grigory Shishov, Vitaly Boyko. They were taken to the police for drawing up protocols under Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (violation of the rules for holding rallies).

On Wednesday, searches were held in the apartments of parents and 92-year-old grandmother Karasev . At this time, he was in another place. The search was carried out by the FSB officers. Karasev said that nothing was seized. In this connection, a search was carried out, he is unknown. Karasev is sure that he did not do anything illegal.

“I used to be actively engaged in the“ E ”center,” Karasev said. Two administrative affairs were instituted against him - under Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (public demonstration of Nazi attributes or symbols) and article 20.29 (production and distribution of extremist materials).

"20.29 - For the fact that I retained in the audio recordings of VKontakte the song of Kolovrat (I sent it to the Voice of the Enemy). 20.3 - because I reposted one person of the right views, who published a photo of the Nazi parade and wrote that the Third Reich would be reborn in Russia: in his commentary to repost, I ridiculed him." Karasev explained.

“In early March, FSB officers came to my institute, tried to find out information about me, spoke nasty things about me. Then I had a conversation with the university’s superiors, but they didn’t take any measures to me yet,” said the coordinator of the Tula Left Front.