At the May Day procession in St. Petersburg detained participants in the city protection column

In St. Petersburg, about ten members of the Solidarity-SPB group were detained at the May Day demonstration, who went in a city-protective column. This was announced to the hotline of the OWD-Info by one of the detainees.

He said that the police did not like the flags of the European Union with whom activists were coming.

The detainees were delivered to the police department No. 43. Among them: Maxim Trinkov, Vsevolod Neelaev, Vladimir Shipitsyn, Vadim Charushev, Asan Mumji, Natalya Voznesenskaya, Maria Kozhevatova, Tatyana Sichkareva, Irina Saiconen, Tatyana Baburina.

UPD 19:15 Maxim Trustov told the OVD-info that after six hours from the moment the detainees were delivered, only the delivery protocols were drawn up. Currently, they expect that they will draw up protocols on a violation of public events (Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). At first, they were also told that they would draw up the protocols on them about disobedience to the legal requirements of police officers (Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).