2024-04-10 00:03:12
Previously, the court of first instance found Lazarev guilty and sentenced him to a suspended prison sentence in accordance with Article 55 of the Criminal Law. The regional court, considering the appeal, overturned the judgment of the Riga City Court on the application of a conditional sentence.
It is planned that the full judgment of the district court will be drawn up on April 23, and it can still be appealed to the Supreme Court in the cassation procedure.
It has already been announced that the first instance court previously sentenced the man to a two-year suspended prison sentence with a two-year probationary period. However, the beaten young man filed an appeal, so the case had to be heard in the district court.
Initially, last summer, the prosecutor’s office imposed 200 hours of community service on Lazarev for the attack on the young man. It was possible to reach such an agreement because the accused admitted his guilt and paid the moral damage compensation demanded by the victim – 6034 euros.
However, the young man’s lawyer appealed the prosecutor’s decision, the General Prosecutor’s Office canceled the prosecutor’s decision on the mentioned punishment and the criminal proceedings were renewed.
In the court of first instance, prosecutor Herta Miķelsone had asked the accused to be sentenced to a suspended prison sentence for two years, as well as probation supervision.
It has already been reported that on May 20, 2022, a march “For liberation from the Soviet legacy” took place from the Freedom Monument to Victory Park in Pārdaugava. After the march near the place of the event, on Eduardas Smilģa street, Lazarev drove a “BMW” car. He stopped the vehicle and injured a young man born in 2003 who had a Ukrainian flag wrapped around his shoulders.
Although the “BMW” left the scene after the incident, it was found out that the attacker was Lazarev, born in 1984, who had already been noticed by the police.
The police then found the car in the yard of a private house, and the license plates had been changed so that the perpetrator could hide his location. The attacker himself was hiding behind the chimney in the attic of his residence.
Police officer Anastasia Tvirko was in the car next to the attacker at the time of the attack. She has been charged with inaction in another case. The policewoman is retired from service.
The Riga city court sentenced the policewoman to a fine of 9,300 euros, but Cvirko appealed the verdict and now the case is in the Kurzeme regional court, which plans to hear the case on June 12 at 10 a.m., the LETA agency found out in the regional court.
2024-04-10 00:03:12