The mother of a St. Petersburg man shot dead in the police department demanded that the claim against the Ministry of Internal Affairs be increased to 4 million rubles

The mother of Dmitry Demidov, who was killed in the police department, Natalya Zvereva, has changed her claims and is asking to recover from the Ministry of Internal Affairs not 1.5 million rubles, but 4 million rubles in compensation, Fontanka reports , citing lawyer Vitaly Cherkasov.

The plaintiff demanded an increase in the amount of compensation at the first hearing in the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow, which has jurisdiction over cases against the Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to the woman, after the death of her son, she often has to seek medical help, since various diseases have worsened due to her worries; In addition, she took custody of Demidov’s young daughter and was forced to leave her job as a conductor.

The basis for the increase in compensation was the decision of the ECHR on the complaint of the mother of St. Petersburg resident Denis Vyrzhikovsky, who died after being severely beaten by the police. In November 2017, the Strasbourg court ordered Russia to pay the plaintiff 60 thousand euros.

The corpse of Dmitry Demidov was found on November 11, 2015 in the criminal investigation office of the 26th department of the Krasnogvardeisky department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in St. Petersburg. Traces of the deceased’s blood were found on the clothes of operative Andrei Artemyev, and the shot in Demidov’s head was made from Makarov’s service pistol.

During the investigation, the policeman insisted that the deceased committed [Roskomnadzor], but at the trial he admitted to unintentional murder, claiming that the gun fired spontaneously when reloading. At the same time, according to the results of a forensic examination, Demidov died on his knees.

Initially, the case against Artemyev was initiated under Articles 105 of the Criminal Code (murder) and 286 of the Criminal Code (exceeding official authority with the use of violence), but later the judge reclassified the first article to the less serious 109 of the Criminal Code (causing death by negligence), and acquitted the defendant under the second.

As a result, in December 2016, the court sentenced the operative to a year and nine months in a general regime colony, despite the fact that the prosecutor requested 12 years in prison for him. Taking into account the time spent in the pre-trial detention center, the policeman spent three months in the colony and was released in August 2017.