YEKATERINBURG, April 25Police officers in Yekaterinburg detained a man who insulted a child in a hat with the letter Z, Valery Gorelykh, head of the press service of the regional head office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, told reporters.
Earlier, the local edition of Justmedia published a video in which a resident of Yekaterinburg, using obscene language, threatened a schoolboy who had the letter Z on his hat.
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«A citizen who insulted a child because of the letter Z on a headdress was identified by the criminal investigation department of OP No. 4 and colleagues from the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Yekaterinburg. The detectives involved OMON fighters of the regional National Guard in the operation to detain him. They took the hater of the CVO symbol in a collective garden with a symbolic name Druzhba, which is in the Chkalovsky district of the regional center,» Gorelykh said.
According to him, the detained man is not registered with a psychiatrist, has no criminal record, and did not know the offended child and his parents. The Yekaterinburger repented and apologized to both the boy and his legal representatives, the representative of the head office noted.
As the regional department of the Russian Investigative Committee added, an investigation was organized into the incident, a report on the established circumstances will be submitted to the chairman of the Russian Investigative Committee.