In Samara they refused to open a case of beating of activists of Navalny's headquarters by police

Investigators of the Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Samara Region refused to open a criminal case against employees of Police Department No. 5 of Samara after they beat up activists of Navalny’s local headquarters, Maxim Dementyev and Yegor Alasheyev. Investigators considered the video they provided, which captured the beginning of the incident, not informative. This was reported by the publication “Idel. Realities."

“The initiation of a criminal case under the articles of excess and abuse of official powers was refused, since the video presented by the applicants Alasheyev and Dementiev as evidence of the use of physical force by the police is not informative, and, accordingly, their words are not confirmed by anything,” an official representative of the regional department told the publication TFR Elena Shkaeva.

Activists intend to file a complaint against the refusal to initiate a criminal case.

Yegor Alasheyev and Maxim Dementyev were detained on April 2 on their way to a rally of pensioners. Traffic police officers stopped the car in which the activists were traveling, saying that they had a clue to their car. After this, the two detainees were taken to police department No. 5 of the Leninsky district.

At the police station, two activists were beaten. Police Lieutenant Colonel Nail Salikhov first struck Alasheyev and then began to strangle the activist with a scarf. The police threw Maxim Dementyev to the floor and handcuffed him. The detainees were able to be released only after an arriving lawyer managed to intervene in the situation. After this, the beaten activists were taken to the emergency room. Doctors at the emergency room diagnosed Yegor Alasheyev with a bruised chest and signs of strangulation on his neck, and Maxim Dementyev with a bruised collarbone and a suspected concussion.