MRS initiated a case of beating veteran in St. Petersburg – BBC Russian

• 15 May 2015

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The investigation has opened a criminal case after media reports about the beating veteran of World War II in one of the polyclinics of St. Petersburg.

Earlier media reported that the incident occurred on May 12 in the city polyclinic №100, when 78-year-old pensioner refused a patient card.

From the words of the pensioner, the cause of aggressive behavior on the part of clinic staff was that it alone He decided to take his medical records. As written media pensioner knocked to the floor and began to twist arms, and then, she said, head of the department repeatedly struck a woman in the head.

The pensioner, according to the Investigative Committee of Russia, is a veteran of the Great Patriotic War: as a child she was a prisoner of the Nazi concentration camps.

According to the website the TFR, the case was filed under “abuse of power with violence”.

In March, on television aired a story about how the doctors of “first aid” in St. Petersburg dragged the floor entrance of the patient unconscious. MRS then filed a case under article “failure to render assistance to the patient”.