The court arrested the leader of the “Christian state”
MOSCOW, September 23 — RIA Novosti. The court arrested the leader of the unregistered organization “Christian state” Alexander Kalinin on suspicion of putting pressure on cinemas in connection with the screening of the film “Matilda”, informed RIA Novosti the representative of the Russian Ministry of internal Affairs of Irina Volk.
“At the request of the investigator, the court elected a measure of restraint in form of detention suspected of committing a crime under article 179 of the criminal code (“coercion to commit the transaction or to refuse its execution”), initiated on the fact of coercion of the management of a commercial organization operating in the field of cinema, to the rejection of the demonstration of the film in cinemas under the threat of violence against the audience of a theatre chain and causing harm and damage to owners of movie theaters,” Wolf said.