Court arrests Chechnya native who brawled with riot police at illegal rally in Moscow

Russia January 28, 2021, 22:56

According to the investigation, the young man repeatedly attacked members of riot police and law enforcement with his hands and feet

MOSCOW, January 28. /TASS/. Moscow’s Presnensky District Court has arrested a native of Chechnya Sayd-Muhammad Jumaev detained for brawling with members of riot police at an unauthorized rally in Moscow on January 23, the court’s press service told TASS.

"Moscow’s Presnensky District Court satisfied a motion of an investigator to apply incarceration as a measure of restraint to Jumaev Sayd-Muhammad Sayd-Muhammadovich, charged with committing two crimes under Article 318, part 1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation for a period until March 23," the court’s press service said.

Earlier, spokeswoman for the main directorate of the Russian Investigative Committee Yulia Ivanova reported that a young man born in 2000 was detained in the Pskov Region and questioned as a suspect. He was suspected of two other similar crimes. According to the investigation, on January 23, the young man who participated in an unauthorized rally near Pushkin square repeatedly attacked members of riot police and law enforcement with his hands and feet.

Earlier, State Duma delegate Adam Delimkhanov in a video on Instagram urged the young man to come forward. The footage of an individual attacking the law enforcement members was posted on the internet. His identity was quickly established. Jumaev became the fifth detainee within the framework of criminal cases opened by the Investigative Committee on illegal actions at the unauthorized rally in Moscow.

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