Mikhail Benyash: I planned to drive up to the detainees. With lawyers, they beat a little less

Krasnodar lawyer Mikhail Benyash was going to defend the detainees in protests against raising the retirement age on September 9. He was stopped in the middle of the street people in civilian clothes and pushed him into a car, and then beaten into the Department of Internal Affairs. Benyash told the OVD-Info about this before the court, in which he received 14 days of arrest and 40 hours of correctional labor. He can also threaten a criminal case.

The day before the protests, I arrived in Krasnodar. I have a personal business here: I had to visit my nephew in the hospital. At the same time, if there were detentions on an inconsistent action - and I knew that it was not agreed, and everyone said this - people would need help, I was going to provide it.

At the same time, I learned that operational-search measures are being held against me. I was a call from a police officer who said that my car was in orientation for some reason and asked me to appear somewhere.

I was very surprised: with what fright my car is in orientation? Next week I reported this to the Investigative Committee, the Prosecutor's Office and the Lawyer Chamber of the Krasnodar Territory. That for some reason I am in development, and since I know that on the eve of the action, from September 6 to 8, 11 people detained from scratch, many-my friends and former clients, I suspect that they can also detain me.

Then there was information that the order came to close me for 15 days. I announced this in the lawyer’s chamber of the Krasnodar Territory. After which I made a call to one of the detained activists - Vitaly Germans, an administrative case has already been terminated against him. Just four minutes after that, the gray “Mazda” stopped next to me, two strong comrades jumped out from there and told me: “Let's go.”

The chamber, the Investigative Committee and the prosecutor's office are nearby. In each of them I prepared and submitted a statement. Mazda drove up when I left the prosecutor’s office and went along Krasnoye Street (Krasnodar Central Street- OTD-Info ). I planned to drive up to the detainees to work to work with them. With lawyers, the detainees beat a little less.

They began to stuff me into the car, it was shot by Ira Barkhatov, my client. I ended up in the car, pulled out the phone to report that something strange was happening: either they were kidnapped or delayed. A strong young man in a white T -shirt began to pull out my phone. I did not give him the phone, for which I received another wringing of my hands. He began to strangle me and throw me throughout the car. It ended in the fact that they put on my handcuffs on both hands, pulled out of the car, threw my face on the asphalt.

I raised my head and realized that I was in the parking lot of the Internal Affairs Directorate, because there were many people in police uniform. Then I was dragged to the third or fourth floor, to the office of the criminal investigation department. All this time I was terribly swept away. A comrade in a white shirt threw me at a chair in his office, told the other policemen to go out, after which he inflicted several blows to me in the face.

I always demanded that he introduce himself. He told me that his name is Ivan, but for some reason his colleagues all the time called him Dima. From the case file I learned that his name is Dmitry Yurchenko, he is a younger sergeant of a criminal investigation department. After several strokes, he pushed me, when falling, I hit my head on the safe.

In early September, I damaged my leg, I walk in a special bandage on my knee. I said that I injured my leg. No one believed, everyone was funny. I was taken to the hospital twice: the abrasions were diagnosed on the face, arms, neck, cheekbones and jaws, hemorrhage in the left drum membrane and traumatic otitis media.

The protocols in terms of the second 20.2 - calls to the inconsistent rally - were drawn up against me - they consisted in the fact that I advised citizens in the network about this event, said that it was not agreed. This is my "offense".

And according to 19.3 (disobedience to the legal request of the policeman- OTD-Info ): for the fact that I allegedly waved my feet in the parking lot at the airborne parking lot, fought my head on the glass of the car and made an attempt to hide. Although I have such a knee now that this is impossible.

They probably wanted to isolate me to minimize the protection of the detainees. Either this is revenge: when the activists began to be enough to the action, with the frequency of once per hour, I promised on Facebook that for each next detainee I would upload personal phones of police chiefs and officials of the regional administration. I posted four phones.

Ten lawyers came to my process, I did not know many: people were not indifferent.

We will initiate the case for abuse of powers, but now I am more interested in that they promised to start an attack on a policeman: as usual, when the police are beaten by someone. Comrade Yurchenko also promised that he would “lower” me. I tell him: “Do you like men? Go ahead, show you what you can. ” After that, he blown sharply.

According to the potential 318th (an article by the Criminal Code of violence against a police officer- OTD-info ), an investigator from the Investigative Committee came, I gave him exhaustive testimonies. Although the police really asked me to take the 51st (an article of the Constitution, which gives the right to refuse to testimony- OVD-info ). The investigator of the Investigative Committee is the only one who introduced himself of those with whom I talked.

The police talked with me like that. A School girl comes up to me, says:

-I have to interview you, but it is better to take the 51st.

-There will be no 51st, introduce yourself.

- I am a police officer, is not visible in the form?

- Apparently, introduce yourself.

- My name is Nastya.

- What can we talk about with the interrogator of Nastya?

She was offended and left.

I spent five or six hours in handcuffs. In handcuffs, I was taken to the hospital. With chained hands, a tomogram of the brain was made. The lawyer, of course, was not allowed: they said: the plan "fortress".

After the hospital, employees came up to me, asked “why I am such a greyhound,” painted what they could do with me. After the investigator, a lawyer was allowed from the SK, at least I got in touch with the outside world. I spent the night in the cell for the administratively detainees, from there I was taken to court. What can I blame me under the 318 article - I have no idea.