More than 200 attacks on Moscow police officers recorded in H1 2013
MOSCOW. July 29 (Interfax) - More than 200 attacks on law enforcement officers were recorded in Moscow in the first half of this year, the city police department press service told Interfax.
"There were 213 attacks on Moscow police officers in the first half of 2013. Materials of each case were referred to the Investigative Committee," the press service said.
Some 137 criminal cases were opened, nine appeals for opening a criminal case were declined and 67 materials are under consideration at Russian Investigative Committee units.
Approximately two dozens of people with origins in the southern regions of Russia tried to free the suspected rapist of a 15-year-old girl detained by the police at the Matveyevsky market on Saturday. A police officer was severely beaten. Several women and a man attacked the officer and one of the assailants presumably hit him with a knuckle duster. The officer was taken to a hospital's intensive care unit with a head injury.
The police detained the suspected rapist and the suspected assailant of their colleague. Later on police sweeps started in city markets on the orders of Moscow police chief Anatoly Yakunin.