Drivers did not share lanes for traffic - one of them was convicted for particularly malicious hooliganism

A 67-year-old previously unconvicted citizen was sentenced, who was accused of committing particularly malicious hooliganism, the Minsk Prosecutor’s Office told the correspondent of the Minsk-Novosti news agency.

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Late February evening of 2026 on the street Krupskaya was driving Lada Granta. By the corner on the street. Malinina she stopped in the central lane, and to the left of her slowed down Geely.

After that, both cars continued to move along the street. Malinina. The Lada driver noticed that Geely was trying to push him out of the lane and even honked several times, but he did not give way to him because he was driving according to the rules of the road and did not violate them.

Stopping at the forbidding traffic light, the outraged man opened the window and began pointing the Geely driver to the carriageway, saying he was moving in his lane.

Initially, the window at Geely was closed. The driver then opened it and extended his hand in which he held an object that looked like a gun. The man driving the Lada thought it was a dummy and told him to shoot. Then the attacker raised his hand higher and fired a shot. Hearing a loud bang, the driver and his passenger were frightened. The woman turned on the camera on her smartphone, and they began to pursue the bully, reporting the incident to line 102.

Geely stopped in one of the courtyards on Rokossovsky Avenue. The Lada driver blocked his passage. Then came the defendant, in whose hands was all the same object. The victim decided to leave because he did not know what to expect from him.

The suspect was promptly detained, a criminal case was opened against him.

In court, the accused admitted guilt partially. He did not dispute that because of the snows that were on his way, he drove into the second lane, where the victim was moving. When he opened the window and began to say something and gesture, the defendant allegedly considered his actions aggressive. To scare the Lada driver, he took out the aerosol spray device from the armrest, which he had previously acquired to scare away dogs. In it through one there were canisters - pepper and noise. The first was noise, which he knew, as he had previously outfitted the device himself.

- The accused has a higher education, he is a director of a private company, previously he was not brought to criminal responsibility, said Olga Gerasimovich, senior prosecutor of the Minsk Prosecutor’s Office for Supervision of Compliance with the Law of Court Decisions in Criminal Cases. The court found him guilty of intentional acts grossly violating public order and expressing clear disrespect for society, accompanied by the threat of violence, committed with the threat of using other objects used as weapons to cause bodily harm, in the absence of signs of a more serious crime (especially malicious hooliganism). On the basis of Part 3 of Art. 339 of the Criminal Code, he was sentenced to three years of restriction of freedom without being sent to an open-type correctional institution.

On the basis of Part 1 of Art. 46-1 of the Criminal Code, the aerosol spray device belonging to the accused was confiscated.

The sentence has entered into force.