A resident of Simferopol and a supporter of Navalny, Alexei Efremov, spoke about his beating during a visit to the Pussy Riot participant Maria Alekhina. This is written by "Crimea. Realities ".
On February 27, the Cossacks, members of the Crimean Solidarity group approached Alekhina and Efremov in the Simferopol cafe. The police arrived instead of detaining hooligans, she took activists to the police department. Later they were released , while there is no information about the detention of the Cossacks.
Alexey Efremov later took off his beatings and went through a forensic medical examination. Doctors found an abrasion on their heads in the temple area.
“After the attack, my ear hurt a lot, but today doctors said that they did not see anything on my ear, at the same time they noticed an abrasion on their heads in the temple area. The relevant documents were compiled, but they didn’t give me anything, saying that they would give everything only to the police who here (for examination - KR) and sent me, ”Efremov told the publication.
Maria Alekhina managed to send a video in which the fighters of the “self -defense of Crimea” are trying to take away the phone from the girl and force activists to go with them.
Cossacks suggested Efremov "to go out and talk like a man." After the refusal, they returned to the cafe and one of the representatives of the Cossacks began to apply Efremov the blows of the Cossack Nagayka, tore the Ephraim jacket.