"This is small, but victory"

Employees who have beaten teenager Vadim Koval in the police department in Kolpino will spend the next one and a half years behind bars

On February 11, the Kolpinsky District Court sentenced the resonant case: the former policeman of 27-year-old Alexei Zabrod condemned for 1 year 8 months in a colony of general regime, and his colleague-ex-police 25-year-old Evgeny Auning-for 1 year 6 months. In addition, both judge Irina Braslavskaya deprived the right to occupy positions in the civil service for two years after the dismissal (from the police was fired in December last year). The convicts were taken into custody in the courtroom and sent to the pre -trial detention center “Crosses”.

“New” talked in detail about how, on the night of May 29, 2019, 17-year-old Vadim Koval was in the 80th police department in Kolpino, 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 channel, 19, in Kolpino, the guy suspected either the theft or in small hooliganism and detained. Later, suspicions of any offense by Koval were not confirmed, but the teenager spent several hours in the department where he was brutally beaten. According to Vadim, the police demanded that he confessed to theft. He says that he was beaten all over his body and head with his feet, hands and rubber stick and threatened: “Do you want us to bother you now?” During hospitalization, the doctors stated in the guy a concussion, a closed chest injury, a closed abdomen, bruises and hematomas, edema of the left century, multiple abrasions and hematomas of the back and buttocks, and bruises of the left knee joint.

The criminal case against the police, initiated in July 2019, was considered in a special manner, without researching evidence, since in December the accused pleaded guilty and concluded a deal with the investigation.

“I am to blame, I caused both moral and physical harm to the victim. This is abnormal for a person in uniform. This will no longer happen again in my life, ”said on February 10 p. G. In court, Alexei Zabroda.

“I could not restrain myself, I behaved unworthy of what I am sorry, but I apologized to the victim,” Auning said.

Before the announcement of the verdict, judge Irina Braslavskaya asked the opinion of the victim.

“I accept an apology and auning and resorts,” said Vadim Koval.

“I forgave both. I believe that there is a conventional punishment, but there is no award. ”

As a result, the court found both defendants guilty of “excess of official powers” ​​(Article 286 of Part 3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), but auning - only with the use of violence, and in violence also with the use of weapons or special equipment. The victim's relatives considered the court decision too soft.

“I'm not bloodthirsty,” says Olesya Koval, the mother of the teenager. - For objective reasons, I wanted the police to bear the punishment along all the severity of the law, and they were softened. A strict punishment is necessary so that others are disgusting to repeat this. So that the act of auning and resorts does not entail a wave of the same almost unpunished acts throughout the country. Although, on the other hand, I understand that in the end it could have been nothing at all. The court could limit himself to conditional terms. And this is at least small, but victory. "

Auning lawyer Dmitry Martynov, on the contrary, considers the sentence “too harsh” and intends to appeal him.

“The case is political, hence the court approach,” the defender of the defendant “new” explained. - But I am very saddened that the judge did not fully take into account the circumstances of the perfect. We will definitely demand a review of the case in the City Court. ”

Truskit lawyer Alexander Ryzhkov comments on the verdict more balanced:

“From the point of view of the law, the court determined the punishment below the lower limit. This article provides for a punishment of three years in prison. However, the judge applied Article 64 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“The appointment of a milder punishment than provided for this crime”), given the numerous mitigating circumstances: sincere recognition and remorse of the perpetrators; partially compensated damage (both the Church and Auning paid to Kovalam 50 thousand rubles . - N.P. ) and apologized to the victims; lack of penalties and criminal records earlier; positive characteristics from the place of work and from the place of residence; content on dependent relatives, including disabled people; “The immoral behavior of the victim, which was a reason for committing a crime” ... Nevertheless, with such a number of mitigating circumstances, in my opinion, the court unreasonably rejected Article 73 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Conventional Conviction”. My client does not agree with the sentence and insists on his appeal in the higher instance. ”

According to lawyers, the appeal in the City Court of St. Petersburg will be filed over the next two weeks.