A St. Petersburg woman beaten by a police officer said that in the hospital they spent “the whole day” trying to persuade her to forgive the security officer.

Margarita Yudina, a participant in the rally in support of politician Alexei Navalny in St. Petersburg, who was kicked in the stomach by a police officer, said that she was persuaded to forgive the security officer. this The woman reported 47.ru. to

“They asked for it all day long. They transferred me from intensive care to a ward so that the colonel could come <...> they tried to persuade me to forgive, they say he is the best,” the victim recalled.

The press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg claimed that police colonel Sergei Muzyka apologized to 54-year-old Yudina for the police officer.

Mash published an audio recording in which a man, introducing himself as Colonel Muzyka, apologizes to the beaten woman and says that “these are not our methods” and promises to take “tough, adequate response measures.” “I didn’t even have any complaints against you. You are not to blame for anything,” Yudina replies.

As Yudina added in a conversation with 47.ru , a correspondent from the 78.ru TV channel was allowed into the room and she was confused. “I am a gentle person - I forgive you. And now I’m thinking, I should have been told: when you release all the political prisoners and Alexei Navalny too, then I’ll forgive you,” she concluded.

Yudina said that she works as a math tutor in the city of Luga and came specially to the rally. “ My position is a change in cannibalistic power. <…> There is a natural zombification through propaganda,” she is sure.

A woman was hit during a rally near Vosstaniya Square on January 23. Yudina approached the police to ask why they detained one of the demonstrators. In response, the security forces kicked the demonstrator in the stomach; the force of the blow caused her to fall on her back.