The court extended the arrest of Nikita Chirtsov, a defendant in the “Moscow case”

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow extended the arrest of the defendant in the “Moscow case” Nikita Chirtsov until January 27, 2020. Mediazona reports this.

Demanding to extend the arrest in the pre-trial detention center, the investigator referred to the fact that the accused could hide from the investigation, allegedly he had already done this when he left for Minsk. Although, as lawyer Alexander Borkov noted: “Nikita left for Belarus long before the case was initiated. He did not know about the criminal case and could not know.”

The prosecutor referred to the fact that Chirtsov is registered in the Perm region, and this is far from the place of investigative actions.

Chirtsov is accused of using violence not dangerous to health against a government official (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code). According to investigators, he deliberately pushed a police officer in the chest with both hands at the rally on July 27.

• Chirtsov was detained on August 28 in Minsk. According to Belarusian police officers, the young man was put on the wanted list in Russia in connection with his participation in the July 27 rally. From there he was deported to Moscow and detained two days later.
• On July 27, protests took place in Moscow in support of independent candidates in the Moscow City Duma elections, during which, according to OVD-Info, 1,373 people were detained . Three days after the action, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case for mass riots. Several people have already been sentenced to real terms.