The court in St. Petersburg refused to arrest the kidnappers of 16 gas masks from a schoolboy

Krasnogvardeysky district court refused the investigation in house arrest of accused of stealing gas masks from a schoolboy. This is reported by the joint press service of courts in St. Petersburg.

The young man of 18 years and his 15-year-old friend were elected a measure of restraint in the form of a ban on certain actions.

According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs in St. Petersburg, it is known that the seventh-grader posted on the website an advertisement for the sale of 16 gas masks. The buyer contacted him and arranged a meeting at the store on Mentors Avenue for inspection and purchase. Instead of inspecting the goods, gas masks were simply loaded into car sharing without paying. The schoolboy tried to stop the young men, but one of them in the passenger seat clamped the victim's right hand with a door while the second pressed the lever of gas to leave.

The teenagers pleaded guilty after being detained. Against the measure of restraint in the form of house arrest, they objected, asking a ban on certain actions.

The court stressed that the investigation did not provide good grounds for house arrest and did not prove that the accused could abscond or continue criminal activities. As a result, they were banned from certain activities.