In Stavropol, Court sentences two teenagers to conditional imprisonment for attacks on Caucasian natives

The Promyshlenny District Court of Stavropol pronounced the verdict of guilty to two minor city residents, who were charged of disorderly conduct committed on preliminary arrangement by motives of national hatred.

Investigators have revealed that two teenagers, both born in 1996, participated in the attacks on persons of non-Slavic nationalities natives of the Caucasus republics in a grouping which members are figurants in a separate case. Members of the grouping committed their attacks in the underpass located in Kulakov Avenue, using knives and baseball bats. When committing crimes, they hid their faces behind scarves with symbols of football clubs and chanted phrases that humiliated honour and dignity of a person on grounds of nationality.

According to the materials of the case, the teenagers who appeared in court and by the time of committing crimes they had been already 15 years old identified nationality of their victims only visually, and, at their first attack, after learning that they made a mistake, they apologized to the victim and fled. In total, they committed four attacks and inflicted injuries of varying severity to their victims.

During the searches in the homes of the accused law enforcement officers were found knives and baseball bats with blood, scarves with symbols of football clubs, as well as audio and video nationalist character.

The Court found both defendants guilty of committing crimes under Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and sentenced one of the teenagers to two years and eight months of conditional imprisonment with probation period of two years and sentenced the second teenager to one year and eight months of conditional imprisonment with probation period of one year and six months. This was reported by the message of the Prosecutor's Office of the Promyshlenny District of Stavropol received by the edition office of the "Caucasian Knot" on May 28. The message does not specify the date of the judgment pronounced by the Court; however, it emphasizes that the verdict has not yet come in force.