Protesters March 26, was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison
Participant uncoordinated rally in Central Moscow on March 26, Stanislaw Simovic got 2.5 years in prison for violence against a police officer. According to the prosecution, he threw a brick at the policeman.
The Tver court of Moscow sentenced the participant of an unsanctioned anti-corruption rally on March 26, Stanislaw Simulta to 2,5 years of a colony of General regime for the violence against the policeman. This decision was made by judge Elena Ermakova, reports RBC.
The court considered that the defendant brought the policeman an apology. Also his dependent is elderly mother, and that he was a veteran of fighting in Chechnya.
Shimuzu charged with a crime under part 1 of article 318 of the criminal code; Prosecutor Larissa Sergueeva asked for him three years in prison; the victim policeman Vadim Kotenev in the debate supported the demands of the public Prosecutor. The investigation concluded that during the unauthorized rally on Tverskaya street and Pushkin square Zimovets threw in fighter Regardie koteneva a fragment of the brick, thereby causing him physical pain. Subsequently, in the inspection of protesters have found a traumatic pistol and a knife, said the Prosecutor. The guilt of Simulta the prosecution argued the testimony of witnesses from among his colleagues koteneva, and a video made by one of them.
The accused during the trial refused to plead guilty. While initially Simovic made a deal with the investigation; at the beginning of the trial, he explained this step the fact that you didn’t see any other options, because I thought that the thrown brick has been a police officer. Later Zimovets, according to him, learned that allegedly caused them injury, the police received training. In addition, the admission of guilt, it pushed conditions in the detention center and the advice of counsel Diana Tarasovoy, told the defendant:
I was in inhuman conditions. I was not given anyone to call. Transported from place to place like cattle.Stanislav Zimovets
At the meeting the accused was, in his words, casually: went for a walk in the center of Moscow and got, as he thought on the holiday festivities, reported by “the Media”. Simovic did not deny that thrown in the direction of the Policeman a piece of brick; he did it out of anger, when the soldiers began to detain people, said the defendant. Lawyer Svetlana Sidorkina Zimova pointed out that the prosecution did not prove the existence of her principal’s criminal intent, and the tape from the case does not allow to understand if the brick at the policeman or not.