"Apparently, this was our warning." An eyewitness and the victim - about the attack on the headquarters of Navalny in Irkutsk

On Wednesday evening, in Irkutsk, six or seven unknown people came to an old log mansion on Timiryazev Street and beat Vladilen Bugaev - the son of the owner of the premises, with whom the supporters of Alexei Navalny agreed to rent an office for a pre -election headquarters. Mediazona talked about what had happened to Bugaev and head of the headquarters Sergei Bespalov.

Sergey Bespalov, head of the headquarters of the election campaign Alexei Navalny in Irkutsk:

Yesterday at about 19.00 I was called a man who was handing us up the room, and said that an attack was made on his son, who was in this office, and that his son was taken to the emergency room to put the seams on his face. Closer to 20.00 we met with him, and he explained that at about 18.30 to the room that we rented, the keys to which we had to get this morning, went three people, looked around, asked a couple of questions and immediately went out. A minute later they jumped up by the sample or the whole; Two began to hold the two citizens who were in the premises who were accidentally there, and four or five began to beat the owner of the owner, and at the beginning of this fight, one of them shouted “We all know about you, you hand over the premises to Navalny, you yourself, a bitch, for an apple”-and further a fight.

These guys, who were there, say that they were clamped and began almost an interrogation. It was very enchanting: they beat a person nearby, and you were just pressed and asked questions- Family-Patronymic, who are you, what are you doing here and so on. It feels like these people are familiar with the basics of operational-search activity.

This young man himself (Vladilen Bugaev - MZ) is very strong, almost two meters in growth, sports physique, and, as he says, if not for sports, he would be cut down from one blow. The people who beat him, according to him, were professionally prepared - when he dodged one of the blows, they broke the door behind him, just struck, there were such power.

Ultimately, he was able to roll him, drove a little and left the room. After which he gathered, came to his senses and went to the emergency room.

All three say that one of the attackers in his hand had a pistol, but they find it difficult to say which one: combat, gas, traumatic. Roughly speaking, [looked like] PM - Makarov's gun.

Already after the emergency room, I wrote a post on Facebook, which now quotes, gave an application to the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Police officers had already arrived, interviewed me next to the headquarters; As I understand it, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, investigative actions will be carried out.

In fact, this is the seventh room that we rent. And the owners of the six previous ones said: no problems, we will pass, everything will be fine. But for various reasons, they refused. Almost all did not advertise these reasons, and the sixth in a row directly said that the bandits came to them. I was very surprised, because we thought that not the bandits, but some power structures, but this story shows that, apparently, there really are some more complicated counteraction design. And this is really the seventh case.

Yesterday on social networks, the father and the victim himself said that, in spite of everything, they would hand over the premises to us.

There were no threats before the attack. I myself only met with the owner of the room today, and we had a conversation that they would probably come to them, will dissuade them. He said: everything is fine, they will talk.

I can assume that someone is listening to my phone, because I talked with the owner’s son very often, but I never communicated with him. We received documents from it by secure email.

These people are not activists and not politics. This is a small business that has a room not the highest class. This is a historical monument, which is not in the best state. Well, here they are handing it over. The activists themselves did not receive threats either, but I think this is more due to the fact that we are very publicly behaving in Irkutsk. I always said that the best protection is publicity.

People on the network very negatively react to the fact that violence was manifested to a completely stranger who really is neither an employee of [headquarters] or an activist. This is a regular business that wants to earn a little, and it is very difficult to earn a little business now.

Vladilen Bugaev, the son of the owner of the premises in which the headquarters of Navalny is located:

There was a conflict with a group of people who are not familiar to me. Nothing so enchanting, everything is banal, a banal fight. When they beat, then they beat, when they kill, then they kill, and not talk. It would be necessary to kill - they would have killed. Is it a problem to do this with a sample? Even three are enough.

At the time of the attack, I watched the work of the builders in the office. Three people went into the room, did not introduce themselves, and I did not ask who they were. They asked if they could purchase cosmetological equipment from me - there used to be a company selling them. I refused them and that’s it, they left. Returned by the School, I interfered with them, but they still came in. Then the fight is already. One of them accidentally dropped the gun, such a beautiful one, but they did not use it. And they were no longer armed with anything, but well prepared. They were usually dressed, their faces did not hide that it was stupid, because the whole city in the cells. We also have cameras, just on the facade they are not in the office either.

They turned to me on the issue of my office, what he is doing and what he will do. They asked not to hand over the office to those to whom I rent. They said that I am making some events as in Ukraine. They associated me with the activities of my tenants, although I am absolutely apolitical. Politics is a dregs, you will never figure it out, it's all dirt.

There was still a couple of my comrades in the office - they were simply kept in the corner so that they would not be fucked.

After I turned to the emergency room, and the procedure for contacting the police immediately went, they came to me immediately after the emergency room. Today he came to the department, spent four hours there, testified. Everything is fine, there are good people. I hope they will work.

There seems to be no concussion, I will only do a tomogram tomorrow. Hematomas, several seams, spoiled mood, misunderstanding.

Now I look at the situation and make a decision. I am inclined to take it anyway. Otherwise, it turns out that third-party people decide where to make money from, rent a room for someone or not. I don't like it. I do not want to live in fear.

I hope, of course, that there will be no new attacks or provocations. The room itself can also suffer. This wooden building can erupt without problems. A monument of culture and architecture still. He was one in the city, the only building preserved after a great fire. I don’t really want it to burn.

Now there is a conversation about increasing the number of cameras.

Until this moment, there were no visits or calls with threats. Apparently, this was our warning.