In Tula, the police stopped the coordinator of the “Citizen Observer” under the pretext of an inspection

In Tula, the police stopped Anton Gubarev, coordinator of the Citizen Observer project, on the pretext of checking documents and asking if he was going to protest in the near future. Gubarev himself told OVD-Info about this.

“I was standing at the station, waiting for the girl. Two police officers came up and introduced themselves. In the shape of. Everything is as it should be,” says the activist. Then he was taken to a strong point, ostensibly to check his documents. According to Gubarev, his passport was taken from his hands and "struck it through the base." After that, they began to ask the man about his political views and whether he plans to go to rallies in the near future.

“They said that if I get caught somewhere again, there will be another conversation and not with them. I asked: “Is this a threat?” “No,” says Gubarev.

late at night Two days ago, the police came to the home of an acquaintance of the coordinator when he was visiting him. Ten minutes before the announcement that they were knocking on his door, Gubarev said that he received a call from a stranger who introduced himself as Vadim and asked the activist about his activities and plans for the future.

• Earlier, an unknown person had already called Gubarev, who introduced him as an employee of the Center "E" also by the name of Vadim and invited him to a conversation.
• Anton Gubarev previously reported on harassment by employees of the E Center. At the end of June, law enforcement officers tried to get to his house in order to conduct a preventive conversation. Then Gubarev associated the interest of the police with the planned rally against the pension reform.
• At the end of May, Gubarev reported that the employees of the Center "E" "in a tough manner" suggested that the organizer of the action "He is not our Tsar" Ivan Surov meet for a conversation. The man who called Surov offered the activist to sit in his car to “talk”. Earlier, employees of the Center "E", according to Gubarev, interviewed his grandmother and neighbors about the activities of the activist. At the same time, he said that law enforcement officers were also monitoring the head of Navalny's headquarters in Tula, Dmitry Nikolaev.