"They grabbed shovels and attacked us ..."

Monologue Anton Grachev, the applicant of the action in support of Alexei Navalny in Gatchina (Leningrad Region)

- We agreed in advance a share for 8 people with the installation of the campaign cube of Navalny in the center of Gatchina. When we arrived at the place indicated in the application, the city of the Housing and Public Utilities Service Tractor stood on the site. The public utilities who “worked” there said: guys, better leave, we need to get out here today. We were immediately confused by the moment that there was not a single police officer in the square. Usually at our events there are always law enforcement officers.

When we began to install a cube, next to us, at a pedestrian crossing, a Gazelle type car stopped with an open body. Two sports physique came out of it, approached the banner, which we had not yet had time to fix it to the cube, and captured it. We made them a remark, after which we tried to pick up the banner. Then they took the shovels of the communal workers and attacked us.

Father got on the head and leg, the muscle brought from the blow. I don’t know who you have to be in order to attack a gray -haired person who is more than 60 years old with a shovel.

Another participant in the action, Dmitry Yakovlev, dodged the shovel, but the Fingala did not pass.

After the fight, young people threw our banner into a car with numbers of 178 regions (St. Petersburg- Ed .) And disappeared.

We called an ambulance, my father and Dmitry were taken to the hospital. We were all examined, they were given certificates. Dmitry was made by MRI, he has damaged soft tissues of 3 in a simple way, bruises, hematomas, but the concussion was not found. He says he feels good, he only sick and hurts his head.

Father got more - he could not rely on the sore leg, on which he got a shovel, jumps on one. They made an X -ray, but nothing that could indicate damage to hard tissues. And on the head of Bati the bump, I think, he also make an MRI. He is now at home, he cannot walk yet.

The most ridiculous thing is that these hooligans also came to the hospital, where we were examined (one hospital in Gatchina). The attackers went into the emergency room and crossed with my father and Dmitry. They asked Batu: "Have you achieved what you wanted?"

Dmitry identified one of the attackers, says that this is a local coach in one of the sports clubs: “Arena” or “Fitness House”, they look quite typical.

The hospital has surveillance cameras, so we can find them.

I think if these were people with the criminal past, they would not have gone to the same hospital here, but would go to another city. These well-fed guys were either offered money or persuaded it on some conditions.

Now we are writing a statement in the police department, we will ask you to check all the shootings from video cameras in the hospital and hospital cards, if the attackers managed to consult doctors. But it is even more important to find out who ordered the attack, because you can’t say to these guys that they themselves might have thought of.

In the statement we indicated: ask you to find the attackers and the customer of the attack.