The Leninsky District Court of Yekaterinburg dismissed a criminal case of hooliganism against a man who scolded a boy for a hat with the letter Z, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the court.
The court ordered the accused Alexander Neustroev to pay a fine of 7 thousand rubles. “Because the judge decided so and the prosecutor did not mind,” the agency’s interlocutor explained. The judgment has not yet entered into force.
State Duma deputy Alexander Khinshtein, in his Telegram channel, was indignant at the decision of the court and called the termination of the criminal case “a spit in the face of everyone who is today in the NVO zone, and first of all, the father of the injured boy.” He stated that he would appeal to the Prosecutor General’s Office to protest “this dubious (to put it mildly) decision” of the court.
The criminal case of hooliganism (part 1 of article 213 of the Criminal Code) against Neustroev was opened by the Investigative Committee in April. The man faced up to five years in prison.
The conflict between Neustroev and the boy occurred on April 21: the man called the child a “moron” and an “idiot” and brought him to tears for wearing a hat with the letter Z. The child’s mother said that the boy’s father was a military man and was participating in a military operation in Ukraine , and her son himself decided to wear such a hat. The woman wrote a statement to the police. The situation was taken under control by the chairman of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin. The man who insulted the child was detained a few days after the conflict, he “confessed to his deed and repented.”
Source: Rosbalt
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