The head of the Khakassia district was found guilty of an attack on a journalist

The head of the Shirinsky district of Khakassia, Sergei Zaitsev, was found guilty of preventing the legal professional activity of the journalist and violence against an employee of the Russia 24 television channel Ivan Litomin. The official was appointed 2 years conditionally, reports Siberia. Reals.

The court also ordered Zaitsev to pay 50 thousand rubles of compensation to the civil lawsuit to the civil lawsuit. The prosecutor's office asked to award the official of the 3 years in the colony, since, according to the state prosecutor, "the lack of repentance in the presence of obvious evidence enters the conclusion that it is impossible to correct it without isolation from society."

On May 22, 2019, Sergey Zaitsev pushed out of the office and threw the Vesti Part of Ivan Litomin on the floor of the Vesti. The official and his lawyers demanded to verify the reliability of the video shot by journalists and asked to verify lithomin for belonging to the journalistic community and the ethics of his actions. According to the investigation, the journalist did not insult the head of the district and behaved adequately. Video recordings confirmed this.

Earlier, the head of the Shirinsky district, Sergei Zaitsev, was accused of excess of official powers during the transfer of a land plot for a landfill for garbage. It was because of this that the journalists came to him then.

According to local media, Zaitsev was already convicted after fires in the area-then the court appointed him 4.5 years in a colony-settlement, but the criminal record was removed due to an amnesty in honor of the 70th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War.