The police detained a Stavropol artist who placed a golden toilet in front of the traffic police building

Against the Stavropol artist Alexander Chaplygin are going to initiate a criminal case because of the installation with a golden toilet bowl in a cage, which he placed in front of the traffic police building. this He announced on Instagram.

With the Bribe-Prison installation, a golden toilet bowl stuffed with coins in a cage, the artist pointed out the problem of bribery in law enforcement agencies. According to him, his work, perhaps, "would benefit the majority of employees who, in the service, find it difficult to restrain themselves from receiving material benefits from citizens in the form of bribes."

Chaplygin placed the installation near the building of the regional traffic police department. One of the employees of the department took the golden toilet bowl as an insult. The artist, according to him, was taken to the police department to initiate proceedings under the article on insulting the authorities (Article 319 of the Criminal Code).

• On July 20, a court in Stavropol arrested Alexei Safonov, head of the local traffic police, for two months in a case of taking bribes worth 19 million rubles. SK published footage from his house - the interior with gold trim, a gold toilet and a sink in the bathroom.