We walked - let's go

In St. Petersburg, the participants of the weekly walk of the “new opposition” - supporters of the nationalist politician Vyacheslav Maltsev were detained on Palace Square. This was reported by the OVD-Info.

According to one of the detainees, Arkady Orlov, about 100 people took part in the action; Another detainee - the leader of the St. Petersburg “New Opposition” Alexander Rastorguev - talks about 250. Data on the number of detainees also vary: activist Larisa Pavlova and Orlov declare 40-50 participants, Rastorguev - more than 100.

At the VK page "Help for detainees in St. Petersburg" is reported about 23 people who got into the police; It is noted that the security forces captured about 40 people, but half was immediately released. OVD-Info writes that 27-28 people were delivered to the departments.

According to Fontanka.ru, the procession started from the Gostiny Dvor. Participants planned to go through Palace to Senate Square. Rastorguev talked with a policeman from the policeman and explained that the opposition intended to take a walk without any symbols and take a picture together. The security forces did not object.

However, when the activists arrived at the Palace, they were expected there about five riot police cars and at least five buses for the detainees. As the OVD-Info reports, people began to grab people suddenly and without explanation. Meanwhile, "Help Detained in St. Petersburg" reports that the detentions began after the complaint of the provocateur from the NOD, who was on Palace with the security forces.

Arseniy Vesnin, journalist Echo of Moscow in St. Petersburg, wrote on his Twitter with reference to an eyewitness that one of the demonstrators tried to escape, but he was caught up and harshly detained. “A few minutes later he was brought into an ambulance on a stretcher,” the journalist added.

According to the ATS-INFO, 16-17 people were delivered to the city OP-1, six to OP-28, five in OP-71. The police reported that they intend to issue protocols on the detainees under Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (violation of the procedure for holding a public event).

However, in the late afternoon of the OP-1, all the detainees were released without drawing up protocols.

According to Fontanka.ru, on April 2, Rastorguev was detained before the start of a walk, on the way to the Gostiny Dvor. A week later, on the 9th, the action took place without detention.