Case of violence against transport police considered in the Tver court

The proletarian district court of Tver found two citizens guilty of committing a crime under part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, the press service of the judicial body reported.

The court found that the drunk citizen grossly violated public order in the passenger train, in connection with which he was denied further travel, and to remove the citizen from the train to the station called employees of the Tver LO of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia on transport.

Law enforcement officers informed the citizen about the need to leave the car and proceed to the department to compile administrative material, which was refused. On the basis of Article 20 of the Federal Law “On Police”, they used physical force against the man.

Being in the vestibule of the car, the citizen struck the police with his feet on the legs, hands and torso. A citizen joined his illegal actions. She pushed the policeman with her hands into the torso and struck with her hands, and later, on the platform of the station, hit the policeman with her hand in the head, bit the hand, squeezed the thigh with her hand and inflicted another series of blows with her hands and feet on the torso

According to the forensic report, the police suffered physical pain and bodily injuries in the form of bruises and abrasions, which did not cause harm to health.

The defendants pleaded guilty and repented.

Taking into account the circumstances of the case, the court appointed each of the defendants a year and a half of imprisonment conditionally with a two-year probationary period, during which the convicts are entrusted with the performance of duties.

The sentence was appealed, not entered into legal force.