In late June a group of youth beat an Armenian citizen on Tatyshev Island in Krasnoyarsk. The victim got serious bodily injuries. Initially criminal proceedings were instituted over the fact on article 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation – “hooliganism”, however when a group of minors were arrested on suspicion of committing that crime, the adult complicit of the beating is also arrested. He introduced himself as “leader of Krasnoyarsk skinheads” and motivated his actions by national dislike. After his arrest the Federal Court of the Soviet region of Krasnoyarsk brought a charge against him on article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation – “instigating hatred or animosity, equally as humiliating human dignity on national ground, publicly, by using violence.”
The case is in the execution of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Soviet region. The investigation is checking the complicity of the person arrested to committing similar crimes. According to Aide of Krasnoyarsk Territory Prosecutor Yelena Pimonenko, this is the first shaking demonstration of nationalism in the region. “And the Prosecutor’s Office will undertake all efforts to prevent such delinquency at once. We have a strict approach to that phenomenon not to admit its spreading,” Yelena Pimonenko underscored, reports the Yerkramas, the newspaper of Armenians of Russia.
