The District Court in Oslo acquitted Andrey Medvedev, a former Wagner mercenary, in the case of assaulting a policeman. This is reported by the legal bureau Matrix advokater, whose lawyers defended the man.
At the same time, Medvedev was given a 14-day suspended sentence in cases of hooliganism and carrying a traumatic pistol in a public place. The man's lawyer, Brynjulf Risnes, told TV 2 that his client was pleased with the decision.
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The former mercenary partially admitted his guilt — on all counts, except for the attack on a policeman. In court, Medvedev said that he himself was a victim of police violence. The judge, having familiarized himself with the records from the station where the Russian was taken, took his side.
A criminal case against Andrei Medvedev was opened in Norway in February. According to investigators, on the night of February 22, he drank and got into a fight on the street with a man at the Andy's Pub bar in Oslo. After the arrest, when he was taken out of the service car, the man “resisted and kicked one or more employees.”
The escape of the former mercenary to Norway in January was reported by the human rights project Gulagu.net. The man said that he crossed the Titovka checkpoint in the Murmansk region using someone else's passport, and then ran across the ice of the Paz River to the other side while he was pursued by border guards.
In April, Medvedev was detained in Sweden, where he went to buy cheap cigarettes and «a little travel». While his asylum case is pending, the man has no right to leave Norway.
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