The Interior Ministry could not establish the identity of the policeman who hit Margarita Yudina

Then the policeman kicked in the stomach a 54-year-old resident of the city of Luga Margarita Yudina, and then came to her to apologize to the hospital.

As a result of the blow, the victim fell and injured her head. At first, she forgave the stranger in the mask who came to her hospital with a bouquet of flowers, but then she nevertheless announced that she would submit an application against him to the Investigative Committee. The policeman explained his actions by the fact that before that he was allegedly poured with pepper spray, and his visor started to fog up, while the video showed that at the moment of the impact the visor was lifted. Also on According to Margarita Yudina, she was "persuaded all day" to forgive the policeman.

A team of lawyers from St. Petersburg, who helped Margarita Yudina with a request to the Ministry of Internal Affairs about the incident, reported that they could not establish the identity of the policeman there. The Ministry of Internal Affairs also told them that the security official would have to apologize only if his actions were recognized as illegal. At the same time, Margarita Yudina also demanded to compensate her for the harm caused and to apologize.

"Currently, measures are being taken to identify this employee", - the Dozhd TV channel quotes the response from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The materials of the check on this episode were transferred to the Investigative Committee for "making a procedural decision".

Earlier, the St. Petersburg department of the Investigative Committee reported back in January that the requested data on the identity of the security official could not be made public . At the end of February, it was reported that a criminal investigation into the beating had been refused. Also, after Margarita Yudina announced that she would still apply for her abuser to the Investigative Committee, guardianship officials came to her home to check how she was raising children, and the older children were threatened with conscription.