
The commander of the 1st battalion of the 2nd Operfal of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow, the victim during the rally “He is not Dimon”, Valery Gonikov was a victim in the “Swamp case”. “Open Russia” drew attention to this.
In the application of force to Gonikov at rallies on March 26, Alexander Shpakov is accused. He, according to investigators, inflicted him "at least two blows with his fist of his hand in the left part of his face." Shpakov stated that he was not involved in the beating of a policeman. He insisted that he was hit with a club on the head, and then dragged into a car carrier, where they beat the kidneys.
Gonikov acted as a victim at the trial of Alexei Gaskarov, Alexander Margolin, Elena Kokhtareva and Ilya Gushchin. He said that the protesters beat his employee, but he himself did not suffer and petitioned that he would be excluded from among the victims. The prosecutors opposed, and he remained among the victims. In addition, Gonikov was a witness in the case of activist Ivan Nepomnya.
The Village previously wrote that the employee of OMON Evgeny Gavrilov, an employee of OMON on March 26, testified to the “swamp business” against Ivan Nepomnyans.
Nepomnyans found guilty under Articles 212 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (mass riots) and 318 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (the use of violence in relation to a representative of the authorities). He was sentenced to two and a half years in the colony. In the case of riots on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012, more than 10 people were sentenced to imprisonment for various terms.