Venediktov: in attack on journalist " Echo " found signs articles of the criminal code
Chief editor of the radio station " Echo of Moscow " Alexei Venediktov said that in the case of the attack on the journalist, the police found signs of criminal articles about obstructing the lawful activity of a journalist, the Materials are forwarded to the Investigative Committee.
the journalist of " Echo of Moscow " in St. Petersburg Arseny Vesnin covering on Sunday a series of pickets in support of Ukraine, after a skirmish with a man. According to the journalist, the attacker kicked him on the arm with the microphone, seeing the logo of the radio station, then punched in the face, knocked from the hands of the tablet and broke glasses. Suspected in the attack was arrested, the police was in relation to him and the Protocol on administrative violation (petty hooliganism) and began preliminary examination.
in preliminary testing in the case of the attack on the journalist Echo SPb found signs of 144 articles of the criminal code. Materials transferred to the Investigative Committee, " Venediktov wrote Tuesday in his own microbiome Twitter.
Article 144 of the criminal code of obstruction of the lawful professional activities of journalists suggests up to six years of imprisonment.
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first Union correspondents Petersburg and Leningrad region were asked in persistent form to investigate the attack on Vesnina in the framework of the criminal case about the obstruction of the lawful activities of a journalist.