SC refused initiate a criminal case against an employee of the Vladimir Center “E” Alexander Terentyev, who bullied and threatened with rape a local resident Alena Zotova, who was detained for photographing policemen. She filmed them on the day of the anti-war action declared “Spring”.
“First, Terentiev, – told Zotov “Argument,” he said that he would strip me naked and make me squat, called me “an ugly old *** with a dirty head,” said that I had “not long to live.” I constantly asked them to introduce themselves and show documents. Terentiev said that he was from a PMC and that I would soon “leave for Ukraine.” When I said that I was not liable for military service, he said that he would mobilize my young man, after which he would “cut off his balls.”
After that, they illegally searched me, forcing me to strip naked. Without witnesses and registration of the protocol. They took my documents and copied the data from the flash drive that was found in my bag, photographed my bank cards. Then they illegally began to take pictures of me, although I told them several times that I did not give my consent. All this time, Terentiev was rude and threatened that I would “depart for Ukraine” or “to Turkey to live with my people [many Vladimir journalists left for Turkey after illegal searches].
He called me “a gypsy who only steals and deals in drugs.” I was in the office for more than three hours. All this time, Terentiev and his partner tried to force me to show them the photos on the phone, they did not give me the phone. They constantly said that “they would lock me up in a cell with homeless people for 15 days,” and then “they would send me to Golovino and there the convicts would deal with me.” To all my questions, Terentiev answered that “I will crush all of you scum and get money for this.
Terentiev put down a bottle of water and said that he would put me on it and make me “piss in it and drink from it.” My requests to go to the toilet were constantly ignored, allowed to go only after a few hours. My blood pressure rose and I felt dizzy, I hardly remember what happened next. Late in the evening, four employees sat around me, filled out an explanation for me and told me to sign it. It was written in the document that I came to the action, took photos of employees and posted them on the Internet, that I have all these photos on my phone.”
Zotova intends to appeal against the refusal to initiate a case: it was taken out despite the fact that she passed a polygraph.
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