The blogger who made a prank about a coronavirus attack in the Moscow metro was asked to serve four years in prison

The prosecutor, during the debate in the Presnensky District Court of Moscow, asked that blogger Karomatullo Jaborov, who filmed a prank about coronavirus in the metro, be sentenced to four years in a general regime colony. this to RIA Novosti . reported The press service of the court

Two more participants in the video, named Isachenko and Melekhov, were each sentenced to three years in prison.

All three are accused of hooliganism (Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code). In the video, which Jaborov posted in February 2020, a young man wearing a medical mask fell in the aisle of a subway car, simulating a seizure, while other participants in the prank shouted that he had coronavirus.

After the video was published, the Moscow metro promised to file a complaint “with law enforcement agencies”; a week later Jaborov was detained and sent to a pre-trial detention center.