In Mogilev, drunken men attacked a seller of oriental sweets with a knife

March 14, Mogilev. In Mogilev, two drunken men attacked a seller of oriental sweets with a knife. BelTA was informed about this by Tatyana Starosotnikova, official representative of the USC in the Mogilev region.

The Mogilev inter-district department of the Investigative Committee initiated a criminal case on especially malicious hooliganism. According to the investigation, on the evening of March 12 in Mogilev, two local residents, aged 48 and 62, while intoxicated , were walking along shopping facilities along Pushkinsky Prospekt. Stopping at the tent of oriental sweets, one of the men began to find out if halva was on sale. Due to the lack of assortment, the drunken man showed aggression and began to beat the seller. The second man at this time took out a knife.

Fighting off the attackers, the salesman grabbed a metal stand and tried to knock the knife out of the older man's hand. During the ensuing fight, the seller was stabbed in the hand with a knife.

An eyewitness to the incident was the controller of a nearby shopping facility. He helped stop the actions of the attackers by knocking a knife out of the hand of one of the men, called law enforcement officers and an ambulance. The victim was hospitalized.

The investigator, with the participation of a specialist from the UGKSE for the Mogilev region, conducted an inspection of the scene, interrogated suspects and witnesses, seized a knife, and assigned a number of expert studies.

The actions of men are qualified under part 3 of article 339 (hooliganism committed with the use of weapons) of the Criminal Code. The men have been arrested. When studying the personalities of the defendants, it was established that they had no previous convictions and were not even brought to administrative responsibility. The criminal investigation is ongoing.