Yekaterinburg resident who insulted a child in a hat with a Z was sent to a colony

State owned media reported that a court in Yekaterinburg sentenced Alexander Neustroev, who insulted a schoolboy wearing a hat with the letter Z, to 3 years in a penal colony.

He was found guilty under the article on hooliganism committed with the threat of violence, motivated by hatred against any social group.

The incident, which was caught on video, occurred in April last year. Later it turned out that the boy's father was fighting in Ukraine. The boy's mother wrote a statement against Neustroev about the so-called discrediting of the army. An administrative protocol was first drawn up against Neustroev, but after the story attracted the attention of pro-war bloggers, a criminal case was opened on hooliganism.

Neustroev pleaded guilty and apologized to the family of the schoolboy.

In June, the court dismissed the case, imposing a court fine of 7.000 rubles. This decision caused howling outrage among the so-called 'patriotic' Z-channels. They began to threaten Neustroev with lynching.

The Prosecutor General's Office hastened to demand a revision of the court's decision in the case of Neustroev, claiming that it could not be terminated, since "it is directed not only against a schoolchild, but also causes damage to the social and moral education of the younger generation and the interests of the RF."

In February 2024, the prosecutor's office, having approved the indictment in the criminal case, sent it for a new trial.

Which finally bowed to the "peoples justice". Perhaps they can scrap next time all pretense and just fix a date for public lynching?

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