In the capital of the Orel region, a fight near the chapel almost led to the death of an athlete

The factory district court of Orel sentenced in the case of causing serious harm to health. The incident happened last fall. In the evening, near the chapel at the Church of Archangel Michael in the regional center, a verbal conflict arose between a man and his acquaintance on the basis of long-standing hostile relations. The opponent first struck a fist in the right area of the head, then grabbed the neck with a suffocating technique, applied a cut and fell on the asphalt. The man fell on his stomach, and the enemy sat on top of his back and continued to strangle, preventing him from freeing himself. The attacker has been wrestling for five years.

Fearing for his life and health, the man took out a working knife from his jacket and struck them at least two blows to the abdomen and at least one blow to the left elbow joint. The athlete was damaged intestines, and also had a cut on the left elbow joint.

During the trial, it was established that the victim was the first to use violence, and he, defending himself, exceeded the limits of the necessary defense. At the same time, the servants of Themis rejected the arguments of the defense about causing harm through negligence and the need for retraining on Part 1 of Article 118 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, indicating that the actions were intentional, and did not yet agree with the argument about affect.

The court took into account the unlawfulness of the victim’s behavior, which became the reason for the crime, active promotion of the disclosure and investigation of the crime, voluntary compensation for material damage and moral damage (250,000 rubles), reconciliation, delivery of goods and humanitarian assistance to the participants of the SVO, the state of health of the defendant and his close relatives. The sentence was set at 10 months of restriction of freedom.