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Russia’s Investigative Committee asks State Duma allow initiating criminal case against deputy Vladimir Bessonov

Policemen appealed to the Rostov region investigating bodies of the Russia’s Investigative Committee to prosecute Vladimir Bessonovm who had inflicted to them injuries during an unauthorized rally.

Rostov region investigating bodies of the Russia’s Investigative Committee are carrying out a pre-investigative check into the fact. According to investigators, on 2 December 2011, in Rostov-on-Don, Bessonov organized an unauthorized rally of more than 100 people on the square in front of the residence of the Presidential plenipotentiary in the Southern Federal District. As the rally was unauthorized the policemen arrived to the scene and demanded to stop the event. Bessonov and other organizers refused. After that a patrol service policeman and Deputy Head of Interior Ministry Main Directorate for the Rostov region attempted to turn off the amplifying equipment and to stop the organizers and participants from committing an administrative offence. In reply Bessonov and other unknown individuals beat the policemen and damaged their uniform.

For the reason that there is corpus delicti of crime under parts 1 and 2 of article 318 of the RF Criminal Code (use of violence against a representative of authority) and considering that all the circumstances of the incident can be established and proved only in the course of criminal investigation the Investigative Committee appealed to State Duma with the request to allow initiating a criminal case against a deputy of State Duma of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation V. Bessonov.