For more than a week, a 24-year-old resident of the city of the city of Elektrostal Evgeny Erzunov is located in pre-trial detention center No. 5. Eugene was detained on the night of November 12 to 13 at the hotel near Vnukovo Airport for Twit about Judge Alexei Krivoruchko.
In September, Krivoruchko sentenced actor Pavel Ustinov - 3.5 years of a general regime colony - on charges of applying violence against a government representative during an unauthorized protest. Pavel Ustinov was not interested in politics, did not participate in opposition rallies, but near the metro, where the police detained him, was waiting for a friend. The verdict to the actor caused public indignation. Ustinova was supported by many actors and directors, single pickets and flash mobs took place in his defense. More than 183 thousand people signed a petition demanding to free Ustinov, and as a result, the Moscow City Court replaced the sentence with 1 year conditionally. At the end of September, the Moscow City Court published on his website comments on the case against Pavel Ustinov, where he complained about “gross judgments about the law” and the frank injury of the judge.
For posts on Twitter, according to investigators, threatening Judge Krivoruchko, on November 11, Alexei Veresov and Sergey Polovets were detained. Veresov is now in pre -trial detention center No. 5 of Moscow. He was accused of public calls for extremism. Sergei Polovtsia, as reported by RBC , pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate with the investigation. He was released on a recognizance not to leave. According to the Site of the IC of the Russian Federation, Sergey Polovets told the investigation about Evgenia Erzunov, with whom he was familiar. Allegedly, he was the author of the post that Polovtsian placed on his Twitter page. Erzunov was charged under Part 1 of Article 296 “The threat of murder, causing harm to health, destruction or damage to property against the judge”. The punishment for this article may be imprisonment for up to 3 years.
Alexey Krivoruchko judged Sergey Magnitsky and participated in many other high -profile processes
The wife of Evgeny Karina Erzunova in an interview with Radio Liberty told how their family lives after her husband's arrest.
- Why did you end up in a hotel near Dvokovo Airport during the detention? Some media, referring to the SK website, wrote that you tried to escape from Russia.
When Zhenya opened the door, masked people fell upon him. I screamed with fear. I thought it was terrorists and we are taken hostage
- We did not plan to run anywhere. We have no money for emigration, elderly relatives in Russia who need to help. In Italy, we have no one except one friend who lives on a scholarship and could not help us with anything. Zhenya and I have long planned a trip to Rome. It was my old dream. Zhenya two years ago in Paris made me an offer. Since the beginning of September, the husband was determined with the vacation. On September 11, he called me and said that everything was decided and he was booking a plane ticket to Italy. The last two tickets remained. We arrived at the hotel on the eve of the departure, because we live in the suburbs and did not want to go with traffic jams early in the morning with a half year old.
- How did the search and detention?
- On November 13, at 3 a.m. we knocked on our number. I woke my husband. He asked: "Who?" They replied that the hotel administrator. When Zhenya opened the door, masked people fell upon him. I screamed with fear. I thought that these were terrorists and we are taken hostage. The daughter woke up, she was shaking. The security forces took our phones, documents. They demanded that I and my daughter go to another number. I asked what was happening. But the police said that it was better for me to leave faster so as not to injure the psyche of the child. I am in a panic, in a state of shock gave them a password from my husband’s phone. Zhenya was interrogated for about two hours. My daughter and me were taken to Moscow, in the UK. Investigators asked what social networks the husband uses, how long he had a phone, about friends and our relations. I answered the questions of the investigator. Then I did not know that it was possible to take the 51st article of the Constitution and not answer anything. I did not understand how to behave in such a situation. With Zhenya, we saw each other for a few minutes before my interrogation in the UK. Eugene asked the police to allow us to talk. My husband tried to cheer me up, but I noticed that he was depressed. There were abrasions on her husband's face. After that, I did not see my husband. Once a lawyer gave me an audio communion from Zhenya. He said that he loves us. For several days we could not find out where Zhenya was, and give him things.
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Evgeny Erzunov’s wife about interrogation in the UK and accusations against her husband
- There was a search in the apartment that you rented in Elektrostal?
- I and my daughter from the UK brought me in our car from Moscow to Elektrostal, where we live. They searched the apartment, took flash drives, phones, tablet, bank cards. I don't live in this apartment anymore, because it’s hard for me to be there. I and my daughter moved to my parents.
- You are now on maternity leave. Are you planning to go to work due to the arrest of your husband?
“ I don't think about it yet.” I worked as a pharmacist in a pharmacy, after the birth of my daughter I decided to completely focus on her upbringing. Zhenya provided me, daughter. The husband worked a lot. He left for Moscow early in the morning and returned late in the evening. I constantly felt under the protection of Zhenya. He helped his retirement parents and 90-year-old grandmother. Parents first after the arrest were in medicines, they could not believe that Zhenya was behind bars. Now we realized what trouble happened to us. We gathered with strength, because the wife is now the worst of all and we need to act correctly in his interests. At first, we did not say anything about the arrest - we were afraid that she would be ill. But after Zhenya was sent to a pre-trial detention center, we had to tell, otherwise someone else would have done it.
At first, we did not say anything about the arrest - we were afraid that she would be bad
- Who did Eugene work?
- Zhenya worked in M. Video, and recently raised him. He systematically made his career: at first he was a seller, then a senior seller, then a manager. He received two higher educations. Eugene understood that he could only rely on himself.
- I read the page on Twitter, which supposedly belongs to Eugene. Only 6 people are signed for it. The owner of this page was reposted by Twit, condemning the beating of Daria Sosnovskaya. The policeman hit the girl in the stomach during the detention after the protest on August 10. At the end of October, Daria Sosnovskaya appealed to the court with a complaint about the inaction of the Investigative Committee of Russia. Also, the owner of the account was repostated by Twit against violence against women. How did Eugene treat violence?
- I did not know before the arrest that my husband had Twitter. And I'm not sure that this twitter was led by Zhenya. Anyone hacking my password and write anything. I don’t know why my husband pleaded guilty. Perhaps he was put pressure on him. I know Zhenya from high school. We studied together at school. I can’t imagine that Zhenya could threaten someone. The husband condemned violence towards children. He said that you can’t scream for children, especially since they cannot be beaten. Zhenya did not understand how to offend a person who is smaller and weaker. I did not hear him conflict or fight with someone. Zhenya is a very kind person. He has many friends. They could not believe that Zhenya was arrested. My husband’s friends first thought that I was playing them. Now Zhenya's friends support me with all his might. If not for them, I would not know what to do.
I can't imagine that Zhenya could threaten someone
- Eugene took part in opposition rallies?
- He spent all his free time with us. He did not have time to go to rallies. Wife was not indifferent to what was happening in the country, but he never spoke anything radical on political topics, all the more he did not threaten anyone murder or violence. I tried not to talk about politics. Of course, I understood that not everything in Russia is good, but I considered it pointless to go against the authorities. I was sure that those who are upstairs, stronger, smarter, are more. I told my husband that everything is fine in our house, so we must live and rejoice at today's day.
Single picket in support of Pavel Ustinov in Moscow
- About the "Moscow case" and the verdict Pavel Ustinov have you heard anything?
- I was not at all interested in politics. I was engaged in a child all day. She didn’t watch the TV, the socio-political media did not read. I only leafed through Instagram, lived in a separate world. After the arrest of Zhenya, I delved into the case of 212. It is very scary when they plant innocent, even those who, like Pavel Ustinov, did not go to rallies. It is scary when they judge and plant people who tried to protect themselves from the police, or protected people nearby. You can’t break life like that. The wife is only 24, this is the heyday of youth. And so everyone was cut to us. I could never imagine that this could happen to our family. At first I was a little angry with Zhenya. He always warned me to be careful, but he himself was ridiculous. But now I think that he was treated unfairly. There is no evidence that Zhenya was going to do something bad with the judge, and cannot be.
There is no evidence that Zhenya was going to do something bad with the judge, there can be no and cannot be
- How does your daughter feel now?
- When we went to another hotel room, my daughter repeated “Dad, Uncle” all the time. It can be seen that the arrest frightened her. Now she cries when she hears a knock on the door. A few days after the arrest, the daughter did not ask about her wife. But three days ago, she looked at me abruptly and said: “Dad.” It was after the father -in -law wrote me a message that he managed to pass things to his wife. The husband is now in pre -trial detention center No. 5 of Moscow.
- What is your action plan?
- We recently hired the lawyer "Agora" Fedor Sirosh. Before that, we had a lawyer for its intended purpose. The lawyer filed a motion to change the preventive measure. We will fight for Zhenya with all our might. I received two letters from my husband. He does not complain about anything and really asks to write letters to him. And I want to ask my wife to write letters. He really needs support.