Hold the thief

The Deputy Prosecutor General Alexander Gutsan sent the Minister of Justice of the Czech Republic Robert Pelican a request for the extradition of the leader of the art group "War" Oleg Vorotnikov (thief). This was reported on the website "Free War".

As noted in the document, the Prosecutor General guarantees that "O. Vorotnikov will be prosecuted only for those crimes in connection with which its issuance is requested, and after the end of the criminal prosecution or trial, and in the event of a conviction - after serving the sentence, will be able to leave the territory of Russia."

Vorotnikova in Russia is accused of three episodes of hooliganism, as well as in public insulting and applying non-hazardous violence against the representative of the authorities for the Palace Revolution (2010) and Mento-da-Fe-Fe, or Fucked Prometheus (2012). Within the framework of the first, the participants of the art group turned several police vehicles. During the second, they set fire to a car factory on the territory of the 71st police department.

September 18 last year, Vorotnikov, who arrived at the Czech Republic from Switzerland with his wife and children, was detained in Prague in accordance with the request of Interpol. Three days later, the Prague City Court decided not to take Vorotnikov into custody, "without seeing the need for this." The activist under the oath promised that he would remain in the Czech Republic and would be in court at the first request for subsequent hearings.

It was reported that Vorotnikova, his wife and three children, while in the Czech Republic, was sheltered in his castle Prince Karel Schwarzenberg, the former head of the Czech Foreign Ministry and a candidate for the president of the country. However, the prince later said that Vorotnikov and his family returned to Prague.

On November 9, 2016, the Prague City Prosecutor's Office received a request to issue Vorotnikov to Russia. "Now the prosecutor will study the materials received, conduct the interrogation of Mr. Vorotnikov, evaluate the materials received from the point of view, if, in his opinion, Vorotnikov’s issuance is possible or not, if the conditions for its issuance are met. Then, according to this, the prosecutor will submit the corresponding proposal to the City Court of Prague with the recommendation to issue or in the non -surrender of Mr. Vorotnikov to Russia," the representative of the prosecutor's office of the Czech Republic said then Stepanka Zenklova.

On May 10, the Czech authorities issued an order to detain Vorotnikov . “He did not appear for interrogation three times and was not discovered at the address he provided to the court,” Zenklova said.

However, on July 7, Pelican assured Vorotnikov that he would not agree to his issuance of Russia. “Why should I send you back? No!” The minister said. “This will be my choice. And I'm sure of it. Don’t worry. As I said, I’m sure that I won’t give out, and it’s clear that I will not let you go to Russia.”

War activists left Russia in early 2013. In November 2010, Vorotnikov and Leonid Nikolaev (Lenya Fucked) were arrested for two months earlier than the Palace Revolution. They were accused under paragraph “b” of part 1 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code (hooliganism based on hatred for the social group of law enforcement officials). In February 2011, both were released on bail. In October 2011, the pursuit of both activists in this case was terminated, and on December of the same year the case was closed. However, in February 2012, this case was resumed.

In January 2012, a new case was opened-in the fact of the arson by Nikolaev Autosak at the police department on the night of December 31, 2011 to January 1, 2012. The case was opened under Part 1 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code. The accusation, however, was not brought to the activist.

At the same time, Nikolaev secretly returned to his homeland. He lived under a stranger and earned a living with physical labor. On September 22, 2015, Nikolaev fell from a height, sawing trees in the city of Domodedovo, Moscow Region, and died in intensive care. The activist was 31 years old.

Vorotnikova’s wife Natalya Sokol was accused under articles 318 and 319 of the Criminal Code for attacking police officers and insulting them in 2011 during the March Strategy-31 campaign in St. Petersburg. In November 2011, she was declared in the federal, and in December - on the international wanted list.