SKINHEAD GROUP, WHO BEAT AN ARMENIAN, ARRESTED IN KRASNOYARSK

PanARMENIAN.Net
04.07.2006 14:07 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ 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.