Detainees at an anti-war rally in Moscow on March 6, who were taken to the Akademichesky police station, said that they were beaten and shaved by people in civilian clothes. This is reported by Novaya Gazeta with reference to the Mundep Levon Smirnov and the detainees themselves.
According to Smirnov, on March 6 he came to the aid of the detainees, then they told him that they were beaten in the police station, insulted, forced to apologize on camera, and “some” men were forcibly cut. When the head of the police department Aleksey Pylev saw the mundep, he demanded that the politician leave the police department. “We have been working with you for so long. I am constructive for you. Now I have 60 people, and you interfere with my work, and then he says: “In general, you are a swindler,” Smirnov noted.
One of the beaten Vladimir Garmash, who used to serve in the Kremlin regiment, told the New newspaper” that he was approached by three men in civilian clothes, one of them immediately hit him in the ear, after which he delivered several more blows. Then the detainee was dragged by the hand to the stairs, where they continued to kick him in the head.
«Between the incoming splashes "1" (since the people in civilian clothes did not introduce themselves, in the interview the interlocutor of the publication designated them with the numbers «0», «1» and «2» — MZ) asked (not verbatim, but the essence was conveyed correctly): «Are you a Nazi ? From these n * d * races, from Ukrainians? Why in berets? Do you like it when our boys are killed?” Garmash recalls.
The beatings continued, the detainee claimed that he was going to the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, people in civilian clothes did not believe, «but the prayer in the pocket, it seems, convinced them.» Seeing a hoodie with the inscription «VALHALLA» on Garmash, the men asked if he was a Viking. After that, one of them picked up the detainee by his long hair, cut it off and took him to record a video “with the condemnation of the Nazis and an ode to the brotherly love of the Russian and Ukrainian peoples,” Garmash added.
Another detainee, Gleb Cherepanov, said that the men in civilian clothes introduced themselves as Russian citizens. One of them grabbed the interlocutor of the publication by the jacket, because of which it was torn. On the stairs he was kneed several times in the chest. In the office, he was required to undress and unlock his phone. “Under threats, of course, of torture, I unlocked it and gave it to them,” Cherepanov specified.
While one of the men was checking the phone, the other started asking the detainee where he had been for eight years and how he felt about the events in Ukraine. “Then they on their phone, they have an iPhone 13 or whatever, recorded part of the interrogation of the detainee. They pointed the camera and said: “Say that you are against fascism,” Cherepanov recalls.
The detainee, who wished to remain anonymous, told Novaya Gazeta that he heard protesters being beaten in one of the offices of the police department, and they were also shouted at.
He said: “Well, only this man really had it there, well, they didn’t hit him in the face, well, he had it, he came out, he had such a cut on the side of his head. Like something blunt hit. There is no blood, but, in short, it is clear that there is no skin in this place. And there is no hair, they also cut it.”
Earlier, the incident at the Brateevo police station, where on the same day, March 6, they beat and tortured Alexandra Kaluga after being detained, received wide publicity.
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