The Minsk Soviet District Court sentenced journalist Dmitri Galko. He was convicted under Article 364 of the Penal Code "Violence or threat of violence against an employee of the police" and sentenced to four years in prison. an open correctional facility.
– To sentence the perpetrator of the crime provided for in Article 364 of the Penal Code and apply the sentence in the form of restriction of liberty with referral to an open institution for a period of 4 years, the judge read out the verdict. for Galco three years of imprisonment.
The story began last year at the end of November, when the minor son of Dmitry Ian celebrated his birthday, where his father was also present. When two militiamen called the apartment, according to investigators, Galko opened the door in a state of intoxication and, knowing that the police were in front of him, did not obey his staff, he used violence, in particular "to avenge the official acts of the militia". He swore with his mate, explaining why teens and alcohol in the house categorically refused.
According to the prosecution, Galko inflicted at least one hit on the hand of a police officer, at least two blows to the head. When he was detained, he began to resist, broke the jacket of one of the police officers, the second was broken by a cell phone. During the holidays, the miners had alcohol. And then the riot police arrested the participants. One of the teenagers, running away, jumped off the balcony and broke his leg.
Galko himself said that he was simply taking the hands of the policeman, there was no fighting.
Galko and his son traveled to Ukraine to Mariupol, where his wife lives. In April, Galko decided to return to Belarus and was detained on the Ukrainian-Belarussian border.
Dmitri Galko did not acknowledge his guilt. At a court hearing, he allegedly admitted to having accidentally broken the police officer's phone while he was attempting to escort him out of the apartment because he was "entering illegally" .
In court, wounded militiamen – Yuri Chirkov and Vadim Kazanovsky – recounted their versions of what happened. Chirkov, said that during patrols on November 25, 2017, he noticed 8-year-old children on one of the balconies, who dripped, smoked and swore to the carpet. Chirkov returned to the department, called the inspector for the juvenile affairs, Casanowski. He came, together they went to check at the place of residence.