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Deputy Prosecutor General Viktor Grin approved the indictment in the criminal case against the "Prisoner of March 26" Alexander Shpakov, the press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office reports . The case was sent to the Tver District Court of Moscow for consideration on the merits.

"According to investigators, Shpakov, interfering with the legitimate activities of the police in the protection of public order, applied violence that is not threatening to life and health in relation to one of them," the report said.

Shpakov is 39 years old, he is a resident of Lyubertsy near Moscow. He worked as a joiner. On March 26, Shpakova with the use of violence was detained at an anti -corruption action in the center of Moscow, where he went with the Russian flag. During the detention of the demonstration , they hit the head with a club , and dragging him into a police bus, they began to beat the kidneys. From the police department, Shpakov was taken away on an ambulance. Having fixed abrasions and bruises in the hospital, he went home.

At about 3 o’clock in the morning on March 27, the TFR appeared to Shpakov with a search, at the end of which the joiner was already detained in a criminal case. On the 28th he was sent to a pre-trial detention center. Thus, Shpakov became the first arrested in the “March 26 case”. Politsyk is contained in the metropolitan pre-trial detention center-5 "Vodnik".

Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code (the use of non -hazardous violence to a representative of the authorities), which provides for up to five years of the colony, was charged with Shpakov. It is alleged that he twice hit the commander of the 1st battalion of the 2nd Opera of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow, Lieutenant Colonel Valery Gonikov. Among the witnesses in the case are the captain and lieutenant of the police.

Earlier, Gonikov - at that time the major - passed the victim in the second swamp business . In 2014, speaking in court, he admitted that during the rally he was not injured in Bolotnaya, but only lost a walkie -talkie that, in addition, belonged not to him, but the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The defense of the accused announced the need to transfer Gonikov into the status of a witness. The major himself did not mind, but the judge of the Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow Natalia Susina, who was a trial, refused at the petition of lawyers.

In the same 2014, Gonikov acted in the process of defendants in another case about the action on Bolotnaya - Sergey Udaltsov and Leonid Razvozzhaev. He said that he had not seen the defendants at the rally, but confirmed the plug of accusations about the mass riots that allegedly occurred there.

On April 27, the activist of Open Russia Polina Nemirovskaya said that Shpakov had given a confession . “Bred,” she explained. Meanwhile, only a week earlier, April 20, the media reported that Shpakov refuses to admit guilt .

On April 28, the Investigative Committee announced the end of the investigation against Shpakov . The defendant and representing his interests, the lawyer of Open Russia Sergey Badamshin began familiarization with the case file.

In the "Case of March 26", in addition to Shpakov, they are accused under the same article 318 of the Criminal Code Stanislav Zimovets, Yuri Kuli and Andrey Kosykh. All of them, on the advice of the appointed lawyers, pleaded guilty. Kulia's case has already come to court. However, the meeting did not take place on Friday. The judge considered that Kuly "was not properly notified" about the process. The case in a special order will be considered on May 18.