VLADIVOSTOK, July 9 Two teenagers in Primorye have been detained on suspicion of beating a man, which their friend filmed on video, the regional prosecutor's office reports.
A video has been circulated on Telegram channels showing one of the teenagers beating a man, who staggers and falls into the bushes. The attacker begins to finish him off on the ground with his feet and hands, and a second teenager joins in.
“Two minors born in 2008, using an insignificant reason, expressing clear disrespect for society, used violence against a passerby born in 1971. At the same time, a friend of the attackers, born in 2009, filmed what was happening on a mobile phone camera. The Pozharsky district prosecutor’s office recognized the legality of initiating criminal charges against minor aggressors cases under Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (hooliganism committed by a group of persons, with the use of violence),” the statement says.
The prosecutor's office clarified that the victim was drunk.
According to the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, the suspects were detained, and ICR investigators decided to take them into custody.
The prosecutor's office adds that the work of the system for preventing neglect and juvenile delinquency will be checked.