"Fire, your honor!"

The court refused to look for slander in the words of the acting governor of St. Petersburg, who attributed the deputy the desire to "pass the city to the Nazis"

On February 21, the Smolninsky District Court of St. Petersburg refused the deputy of the city parliament Maxim Reznik in satisfaction of the claim against the acting governor Alexander Beglov. The “new” already said that the conflict between the deputy and the acting began on January 23, when the latter at a meeting with veterans said the following: “Today again [in the Legislative Assembly] one of the deputies, Reznik, spoke. And he said that it was necessary to pass the city [Leningrad] to the Nazis ... He went crazy. "

Later, despite the existence of the audio recordings, Beglov said: “Veterans spoke about this ... Maybe I repeated. I have no reason not to believe veterans and blockade. ”

In the statement of claim, Maxim Reznik demanded that the temporarily executing head of the city make a public refutation, as well as compensate for compensation for moral damage in the amount of 1 ruble.

On Thursday, a preliminary meeting was scheduled. At the beginning of the hearing, representatives of the defendant said that the plaintiffs did not have the right to file a lawsuit against the temporarily acting governor Alexander Beglov as an official. The lawyer Natalya Shatikhina, representing the city government, referred to article 16 of the charter of the city of St. Petersburg. “Under such circumstances, in the order of civil proceedings, the governor cannot be the appropriate defendant, and claims can be declared either to the government of St. Petersburg or to an individual,” the defense explained.

The judge reacted to this unexpectedly: she immediately attracted the government of St. Petersburg as a co -shaper. "Fire, your honor!" - said Natalya Shatikhina. Considering that Judge Oksana Azizova incorrectly understands the law, the defendant’s lawyers told her a challenge. The judge, according to them, violated the procedure for maintaining the process: Acting Beglov as an official cannot be a co -defendant, and they, as representatives of the government, had to officially notify the trial. Azizov consulted with herself ten minutes and returned with a negative decision.

This was followed by other oddities. The preliminary meeting flowed into the main one, and then both sides already expressed disagreement. Reznik’s lawyer Natela Ponomarev asked to exclude the word “acting governor” from the claim and leave only “A. D. Beglov ”, that is, an individual, and not an official, and also postpone the meeting so that the defendant present his arguments in confirmation or refutation of the arguments presented by the plaintiff. And both times received a refusal.

It seemed to it that the judge was seeking to quickly make out this case. Not paying attention to the reproaches from lawyers, Oksana Azizov turned to the study of evidence.

She asked the assistant to turn on the audio recording, on which Alexander Beglov pronounces the words offensive to Reznik. “Today, again there, one of the deputies, Reznik, spoke and says that it was necessary to hand over the city to the Nazis,” the opponent baked. - But I answered him, and in the government ( this refers to the meeting of Beglov with the deputies at a meeting in Smolny on December 25. - S. S. ) answered ... And he says that the Nazis or in Europe at that time had democracy. <...> I just went crazy! "

Reznik’s lawyer once again confirmed the stated requirements: to recognize the words of Beglov to not be true, to publish a refutation on the administration’s website and pay compensation in the amount of one ruble. “I calmly relate to criticism, but the announced information offends me already because it is one hundred percent of a untruth,” the deputy told the court. “This is not only an insult to the memory of my relatives and friends who defended their homeland and the city, but this creates a negative background.” He explained the amount of damage for himself by the fact that "he does not consider it possible to measure the insult in money."

The defendants in the debate stated that only a fragment of Beglov’s speech was presented at the meeting, and expressed their readiness to provide the government post-release of the meeting in which Beglov’s words about Reznik did not. In addition, Natalya Shatikhina said that she would try to refer to the practice of the European Court of Human Rights, because she knows that Reznik does not trust Russian justice. Her colleague Marina Gorlacheva said that even with the appropriate court decision, Alexander Beglov would not be obliged to refute his words, since he is not a participant in this meeting.

At the end of the debate, Natel Ponomareva asked to return from the debate to consider the case on the merits, so that both sides were able to fully submit their evidence - among other things and the full audio recording of Beglov’s speech in order to dispel doubts about her authenticity. The court refused this to her.

Fifteen minutes of the break, Oksana Azizova was enough to come to the decision to refuse Maxim Reznik to satisfy his claims. The motivating part of the court decision, from which the logic of this decision will be understood, will be ready by February 26. Natela Ponomareva informed Novye that this decision would be appealed.

Meanwhile, on March 12, a preliminary meeting of the Nevsky District Court was scheduled. There, MP Reznik filed a lawsuit against two defendants-the acting governor Alexander Beglov and the Internet portal “We can” (in the person of his chief editor Vasily Romanov), who distributed the words of the mayor about the deputy.

PS

Against the backdrop of the trial between Beglov and Reznik, Oleg Glushchenko, director of the Warrior-B construction company, recalled his grievances on the latter. On February 18, the Vasileostrovsky District Court of St. Petersburg registered a businessman’s lawsuit against the deputy. The reason for applying to the court was Reznik’s words about the role of Oleg Glushchenko in the criminal case of former deputy Vyacheslav Notyag, convicted of receiving a bribe. Glushchenko requires a million rubles from Reznik.