The court arrested for five days the St. Petersburg residents who imitated police work: they pretended to beat detainees with batons
The Smolninsky District Court of St. Petersburg arrested 11 local residents who participated in simulating the work of law enforcement agencies. This was reported by the joint press service of the city courts. Dmitry Romantsev, Bogdan Saribekyan, Alexander Zhokhov, Alexander Demyanov, Roman Malyshev, Ilya Barbashin, Ivan Khrabrov, Artem Banshchikov, Andrei Kozulin, Vasily Melnikov and Vladimir Shipulin were found guilty of petty hooliganism (Part 1 of Article 20.1 of the Administrative Code).