The court found evidence collected by the Urals Federal District Investigations Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation sufficient to deliver a judgment in a criminal case on the riots during the rock festival "Tornado-2010" in the Miass District, Chelyabinsk Region. Anatoly Gilyov and Sergey Kurbatov have been found guilty of an offense under Part 2 of Article 212 of the RF Criminal Code (riots). In addition, Maxim Popov has been found guilty of committing crimes under Part 1 of Article 212 of the RF Criminal Code (riots) and Paragraph "a" of Part 2 of Article 282 of the RF Criminal Code (incitement to hatred or hostility, and humiliation of human dignity).
Investigators and the court found that the August 29, 2010, young people in an amount of not less than 50 people arrived at the rock festival "Tornado", which was being held in the territory of a children’s recreation camp, and organized riots accompanied by violence, destruction of property, the use of firearms against the visitors of the event. In addition, Popov expressed appeals inciting hatred towards the social group of the informal type having such common values and interests as passion for rock music, as well as encouraged to humiliate the dignity of these people. The riots affected about 40 people.
The court sentenced Popov to 4.5 years in prison, Sergey Kurbatov to 4 years in prison, and Anatoly Gilyov to 3 years in prison.
In addition, the court decided to release three other defendants, namely Mikhail Gopfauf, Dmitry Pavlikov and Igor Strigunov, from criminal liability pursuant to the amnesty act. Also recall that earlier, in July 2012, 13 organizers and participants in the riots had already been sentenced by the court to imprisonment for the crimes committed at the rock festival "Tornado".
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