Sit at home! "9 examples of recent cruel attacks on St. Petersburg activists

In recent years, attacks on activists have been regularly taking place in St. Petersburg. As a rule, the attackers remain unpunished even when the victim identifies them. In conditions of permissiveness, criminals will bold and switch to a new stage: on the night of July 21, activist Elena Grigoryeva was brutally killed. The Insider recalls the 9 most high -profile attacks on activists recently.

July 2019. Elena Grigoryeva

On the night of July 21, activist Elena Grigoryeva was brutally killed in St. Petersburg. Her body was found in the bushes near the house on Pulkovskaya Street. She had her back, her face, there were traces of strangulation on her neck. Grigoryeva took part in protest promotions, including on the topic of silence of the problems of LGBT, in support of the Crimean Tatars, truckers and sisters of Khachaturian. She was 41 years old. Human rights activist Dinar Idrisov said that Grigoryeva regularly received threats to murder in connection with her activities. She turned to the police, but law enforcement agencies did not take any actions on this occasion.

December 2018. Evgeny Tarasov

On December 4, in St. Petersburg, unknown people beat three participants in the “unlimited protest” who left the 78th police department. According to one of the victims, they shouted: "Sit at home." “Four people attacked from the back. They beat on the head, legs. They beat cruelly, ”one of the activists Evgeny Tarasov told the channel. He added that there are girls among the victims. It is also reported that an ambulance team came to the police department.

June 2018 Alexander Shurshev

On June 26, in St. Petersburg they attacked the head of the headquarters of Navalny Alexander Shurschev. “They attacked the gateway at IKMO Yekateringof, where there was a huge line. The phone is broken, hands and knees in the blood. But alive. By 12 I go to a horizon for consideration of a complaint on Yekateringof, ”the activist wrote.

November 2018 Dmitry Otchinkin

On November 18, 2018, the activist Dmitry Otchinkin was attacked in the resort area of ​​St. Petersburg. Otchinkin was going to organize public hearings and achieve a revision of the municipal budget. The attackers were waiting for him in the courtyard of the house, they beat him with reinforcement, including on the head, and pierced the wheels of his car.

Prekhinkin, bleeding, reached the police department and was hospitalized from there in serious condition.

February 2018. Oleg Maksakov

The activist of the public organization Open Russia, Oleg Maksakov, was beaten on February 19, 2018, this happened at the entrance of his house in St. Petersburg. The faces of the attackers were closed by scarves. They did not rob him and did not say anything. The activist himself had to call an ambulance himself.

January 2018. Konstantin Sinitsin and Dinar Idrisov

53-year-old oppositionist Konstantin Sinitsin on January 26, 2018 was found killed in the basement of his house in St. Petersburg. Two days later, Sinitsin’s neighbor came to the police, who claimed that they had a fight on household grounds. Over time, his testimony changed: he stated that “he did not beat Sinitsin at all, but only on the fourth floor he gave a knee a couple of times below his back”, then pushed down to the stairs leading to the basement, and the injuries described in the case file were not obtained from him.

A lawyer protecting the interests of the son of the deceased believes that the case is not properly investigated, he has a lot of inconsistencies. And two days later - on January 28 - the human rights activist, the coordinator of the Rus Sitting "branch, Dinar Idrisov, who reported the death of Sinitsin, was beaten. Three men attacked him, broke their hand and cheekbone.

This was already the second attack on Idrisov. On March 6, at about 3 a.m. Dinar Idrisov, returned home when four attacked him. “When I went to the house, I didn’t see anyone, there was no surveillance of me, there were no conflicts that day either. As usual, it is unrealistic to put the car in the yard at night, so I usually put it at the entrance to the courtyard, under the video surveillance camera,” Dinar Idrisov said. “I live in a guarded house, there were a lot of cameras around the perimeter, and there was an attack right in front of my noses and for the camera. I have been talking about the phone at that moment, I was able to reflect the first blow, but I had to retreat when I was putting on a house and a car, and the fight took place in such a limited space I know that they stopped, what they wanted.

December 2017. Vladimir Ivantyenko

On December 27, 2017, an attempt was made to kill the activist of the Artillery Podrotovka movement Vladimir Ivantyenko. He was inflicted on several stab wounds.

The comrade -in -arms of the wounded activist Alexander Rastorguev informed the portal of RBC that the people in the hoods were waiting for Ivantyenko when he left the entrance. “They stunned with an electric shocker, broke their hands and stabbed several times with a knife in the abdomen, injuring all the main organs,” Rastorguev said, adding that in his opinion Ivantyenko wanted to kill. Ivantyenko claimed that Valery Amelchenko, the hero of the Novaya Gazeta investigation about crimes, which, allegedly, ordered the subordinates of Yevgeny Prigozhin, participated in the attack. Ivantyenko asked to arrest Amelchenko, but the investigator released him.

In 2019, Ivantyenko was arrested. He was accused of left a bundle in St. Petersburg in St. Petersburg in St. Petersburg with two explosives and a fire -wire cord. Ivantyenko claims that in the package there was a putty from a construction store.

October 2017 Vladimir Shipitsin

In October 2015, the activist of the Solidarity movement Vladimir Shipycin was sprayed into the eyes of a gas spray liquid, and then beaten with a brand. The attack occurred at his house in St. Petersburg.

“Do not write more than x ** nude about good people, the next time it will be worse,” said the attacker, beating the activist. Then he took a few photos. The solidarity said that "the attack occurred exclusively for political reasons."