Chicken in the New Year beat a familiar bottle of champagne

The magistrate of Zheleznogorsk, Kursk region, sentenced a 47-year-old local resident on a criminal offense. A man with multiple convictions was found guilty of intentional infliction of light harm to health using an object as a weapon (paragraph "c" of part 2 of article 115 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

According to the materials of the proceedings, the conflict occurred during the celebration of the New 2026. The man drank alcohol in the company of his partner and her friend. During the feast between him and his partner, a quarrel broke out, which turned into assault, the joint press service of the courts of the Kursk region said.

A friend of the victim tried to intervene and protect the woman, but the aggressor turned his attention to her. He struck her several times in the face, including the eye and forehead. The attacker then grabbed an empty champagne glass bottle and, using it as a weapon, attacked the intercessor. The blows occurred in the parietal part of the head, on the back of the head, shoulders, shoulder blades and lower back.

The defendant apologized to the victim, but the woman rejected them and demanded strict punishment.

As a result, the offender was sentenced to 10 months in prison. However, on the basis of part 5 of Article 69 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, by partially joining this term of punishment under the previous sentence, the final term was 1 year and 4 months of imprisonment. A man will serve his sentence in a colony-settlement.

Until the sentence has entered into force and it can be appealed to a higher instance.