MOSCOW, February 23 A passenger on the Moscow Central Diameter in the capital sprayed a gas canister in the man’s face, and then stabbed another man who stood up for his fellow traveler, the press service of the transport department reported. Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Central Federal District.
«The victim, a resident of the Moscow region born in 1993, <..> was taken to the hospital, where he was diagnosed with two stab wounds, one of which was penetrating. <..> The man was seriously injured «, the department said.
The police detained the attacker at the Kuntsevskaya station and seized the handle and blade from the knife, which broke at the end of the attack two parts.
The detainee claims that one of the victims began to stare at her. She asked him not to do this, but he did not respond to the request. Then the woman sprayed a gas canister in his face.
“The other passenger didn’t like it. To which he began to insult me and then beat me. And I stabbed him with a knife,” she said.
The suspect was taken into custody and opened a criminal case under paragraph “h” of Part 2 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code (“Intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm”).