Police in Mari El apologized for breaking the arm of a participant in a fire truck driving competition five years ago

Valentin Alexandrov, a resident of the village of Morki in the Republic of Mari El, received a letter from the police apologizing for the actions of traffic police officers who broke his arm in 2012. 7x7 about this . told The victim’s lawyer, lawyer of the Committee for the Prevention of Torture, Dmitry Yalikov,

The letter, signed by the acting commander of a separate traffic police battalion, arrived after the court decision on the policeman’s guilt in violence came into force. In April, former traffic police officer Evgeniy Petukhov received three years probation under paragraph “a” of Part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code (exceeding official authority with the use of violence).

According to Petrov, in the fall of 2012 he was supposed to go to Arzamas for a fire truck driving competition. On September 17, when he went home to get his license to get documents to drive a fire truck, a traffic police inspector demanded that he stop. Petrov forgot his car license, he decided to ignore the policeman and continued on his way home. The police detained him at the entrance, one of them grabbed the man by the arm, the second hit him in the face, then they handcuffed him and took him for a medical examination. Doctors later diagnosed a fracture of the ulna.

Two years later, a criminal case was initiated to trial , but it was canceled and it came only in January 2017.