PROSECUTOR DEMANDS ONLY 4 YEARS OF IMPRISONMENT FOR MAD CROWD LEADER

PanARMENIAN.Net
29.11.2006 18:03 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Hearings on the case of Ruslan Melnik, the probable
leader of the Mad Crowd grouping were held in the federal court of
Pushkin district of Saint Petersburg. As reported by the Agency of
Journalist Investigations, the state prosecutor insists on finding
Ruslan Melnik guilty on all the accusation items except calls to
enticement of national hatred through media. This episode, according
to the prosecution, has not been proved. On the remaining points
the prosecutor demanded 4 years of imprisonment. The other members
of the Mad Crowd were sentenced to 2-3 years of imprisonment in
December 2005. According to the investigators, Mad Crowd was formed
for committing assaults on foreign citizens.

The grouping is accused of assault on McDonald’s in the Nevsky Avenue
in April 2003, beating of a native of Azerbaijan and Chinese citizens
in October 2003 and assault on an Armenian citizen.