All participants of the action Pussy Riot at the world Cup fined for wearing police uniforms
Moscow. July 25. INTERFAX.RU World court of Hamovnichesky area of Moscow has appointed the penalty in 1,5 thousand roubles to the participant of the punk band Pussy Riot Veronica Nikulinoj for illegal possession of police uniforms during the campaign in the final of the world Cup, the correspondent “of Interfax”.
“The court decided: to recognize Nikulshina guilty of an offence under part 1 of article 17.12 of the administrative code (unlawful wearing of uniform), and assign punishment in the form of an administrative fine in the amount of 1.5 thousand rubles. Uniforms remove”, — announced the decision of the judge of the world plot of 364 Khamovniki district Svetlana Shatrova.
The same punishment the court has appointed Wednesday to three more protesters Pussy Riot: Peter Verzilova, Olga Kurachevoy and Olga Pakhtusova.
None of the young people in the course of consideration of cases pleaded not guilty.
According to their lawyer Nikolai Vasilyev, the use of police uniforms for the shares not aimed attacks on the government institutions but was necessary to convey the meaning of the accompanying Manifesto.
“The policeman comes into play”, timed to the day of death of the poet Dmitry Prigov. According to the position of defense, the uniforms in the framework of the action has the status of props — such as in film and theater.
Previously, the Moscow Khamovnichesky court ordered all four to 15 days of administrative arrest for “gross violation of rules of conduct spectators when conducting official sports competitions, if these actions do not contain penal act” (part 3 of article 20.31 of the administrative code). In addition, the court’s decision in young people is prohibited for three years to visit the official sport events in Russia.
July 15, three girls and a young man in a police uniform ran onto the football field about 50 minutes of the final match of world football Championship between the teams of Croatia and France in Moscow on the Big sports arena “Luzhniki”.
The aim of the action, as mentioned in the released Pussy Riot Manifesto was: “to release all political prisoners; do not plant in liking; to stop arbitrary arrests at rallies, to prevent political competition in the country; not to fabricate criminal cases and not to keep people in jail just so; to transform the earth in heavenly policeman policeman”.
The image of “a policeman, a carrier of heavenly state,” it said in a statement that was created by the poet Prigov.