An investigator in St. Petersburg dropped a criminal case due to graffiti with Navalny

In St. Petersburg, the investigator canceled the decision to initiate a criminal case of vandalism based on political enmity (Part 2 of Article 214 of the Criminal Code), the reason for which was graffiti with Alexei Navalny on a transformer booth. This was reported by lawyer Maria Belyaeva, who collaborates with OVD-Info.

Belyaeva represents the interests of one of the authors of the drawing; at the request of her client, she did not name his name.

The lawyer noted that “the cancellation of the decision to initiate a criminal case is even better, as if there is no criminal case, has not been and never will be.”

The investigator made this decision because he found the decision to initiate a case in connection with graffiti illegal and unfounded.

Belyaeva noted that during the interrogation, while still as a witness, her client emphasized that the graffiti had nothing to do with inciting political or ideological hatred.

“First and foremost, this was an act of showing mercy and compassion to a man who returned to his country knowing that he would be sent to prison. Thus, it was important for my client to support him as a person.

And a very important point that we noted throughout our interaction with law enforcement agencies, the graffiti was not an act of vandalism, it was very beautiful. It was a photo of a happy smiling man with a heart and the caption “Hero of our time.” “Exclusively an act of compassion from person to person,” the lawyer emphasized.

The news has been corrected. Previously, it was erroneously reported that the prosecutor's office refused to initiate a case. In reality, this decision was made by the investigator. - The graffiti with Navalny was painted on April 28. The next day, the Petrogradsky district police filed a criminal case of vandalism based on political hostility (Part 2 of Article 214 of the Criminal Code). In this regard, four people were questioned as suspects. excited - Alexei Navalny decided to return to Russia after completing a course of treatment and rehabilitation in Germany: he was taken there by plane after being poisoned by Novichok, in which the politician. After returning it, then. Then the court demanded from the Federal Penitentiary Service to replace Navalny’s suspended sentence with a real one in the Yves Rocher case. accused FSB detained sent to custody satisfied - According to the court decision, Navalny will spend two and a half years in the colony. Politics in a correctional colony in the Vladimir region. Navalny has been in prison for almost a month because he was denied examination by his personal doctors. transported on hunger strike