Unknown power

In the story of the beating of a teenager in the police department there are already two criminal cases, but not a single suspect

The operatives who detained the 17-year-old Vadim Koval in the Family store and delivered it to the department are considered “unidentified persons”. But the investigation stubbornly tries to find an offense in the actions of the victim.

“New” told how, on the night of May 28-29, Vadim Koval was in the 80th police department of Kolpino near St. Petersburg, from where he was then hospitalized with bodily injuries. On the evening of May 28, in the Family store, on the embankment of the Komsomol Canal, 19, in Kolpino, the young man was suspected of theft. Viewing records from video cameras denied suspicions. Prior to the arrival of the police, the “family” guards managed to apply force to the teenager, as a result of which a criminal case under Art. 203 part 1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Excess of authority by employees of a private security organization”. Vadim's relatives initially emphasized: two men laid the guy on the floor and stepped on him in the berets, but this could not lead to those injuries that the doctors recorded on the night of May 29. The teenager himself claims that he was beaten in the 80th police department, whose employees demanded that the teenager confess to theft, but they did not achieve recognition.

On July 1, the investigation department in the Kolpinsky district of the Main Directorate of the IC of the Russian Federation for St. Petersburg completed the verification of the legitimacy of police officers and opened a criminal case under Art. 286 h. 3 paragraphs “a” of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Excess of official powers with the use of violence”, but not in relation to law enforcement officers, but on the fact of the incident. As stated in the decision to initiate a criminal case, the employees of the 80th police department who detained Vadim Koval, being “representatives of the authorities, officials (...), endowed with the right to make decisions that are binding by citizens” at the same time were “unidentified persons” !

According to the logic of the investigation, it is not known who entered the service in the 80th police department on May 28, who went to the detention and issued it. Meanwhile (we quote the decision further), these unidentified subjects, “realizing the criminal nature of their actions, obviously and obviously going beyond the limits of their official powers, acting intentionally in relation to the mentioned police department of the minor Koval, exceeding their official powers, inflicted at least four beats with a rubber stick to the area of ​​the buttocks, and at least at least Two strokes in the head area ... ” They damaged the guy's eyes, defeated the temple, applied hematomas, and caused bruises. In a word, investigators summarize, "they delivered physical pain, but did not harm health." To establish “unidentified” police detectives have no opportunities and abilities, but much with the confidence of the certified doctors to evaluate harm to their health.

In addition to the above, the document says that the mysterious comrades detained the teenager in the Family store and delivered to the 80th police department “For an administrative offense”. Details are not specified.

“At first, Vadim tried by hook or by crook to impose the theft, which was not there, but there was nothing that could confirm it,” commented Olesya Koval in an interview with the “new” mother of the teenager. -Then they began to invent any administrative offense. On June 25, my son and I were summoned to a minors' commission, where they presented a protocol of May 30, which said that Vadik was supposedly hooligan in the store. But I saw this document, concocted in a hidden, retroactively, with violations, I saw for the first time and, of course, challenged. That evening the son also did not commit any hooliganism.

The decision to institute criminal proceedings, by the way, on January 17, 2019, Olesya Koval also intends to appeal.