A youngster gets 1,5 years of imprisonment for walking naked in the street
Two friends of his got 6 months each, and one more "nudist-criminal" has been in search since last Summer.
Three inhabitants of Baranavichy got 3 years of imprisonment in total for walking naked in the city center. The fact that they were sober didn't help.
"We have the most human-oriented court in the world here in the city of Baranavichy", - a policeman from Baranavichy comments on this weird sentence. All the four "nudists" are his "good acquaintances".
Policeman: "Just go to the Northern micro-district and ask who L. is. Every seller will tell you who he is. Or, rather, who they are as it is difficult to distinguish them... The whole family has history of convictions. One family member gets out of prison, the other gets to prison".
This time, the men were punished for walking naked in the Savetskaya Street back in Summer: two of them got 6 months of imprisonment, the third one got two years. One more is still in search.
"It was a Summer day, there were many people outside. Secondly, there is an Ice Hockey Palace there, there were people as well. Moreover, public transport was also working... All this was considered aggravating circumstances", - Deputy Chair of Baranavichy district and Baranavichy city court Vasil Pyatryu has said to Euroradio.
The judge continues explaining of the severity of the sentence and gets surprised: the men were sober during their nudist walk!
Vasil Pyatryu: "This is the weirdest! All of them were sober... I wouldn't be so weird if they were drunk - vodka turns brains off, worse things happened... But they were sober!"
"There were no lawyers - they defended themselves. I think this is because none of them actually had a job, — Assistant of Baranavichy prosecutor Svyatlana Pasemkina recalls. She was the state prosecutor at the trial. — There were women in the court hall who accompanied them and carried their clothes. They were summoned to the court as witnesses".
The criminal case was started under Part 2 Article 339 - malicious hooliganism.
"This is malicious hooliganism because they did it together. Speaking in terms of the law - the crime was committed by a group of persons. My convict had two prior convictions under the same article", — Vasil Pyatryu continues.
However, those two convictions were not connected with getting naked, he clarified on the spot.
Vasil Pyatryu: "Another "nudist" was serving punishment in the form of compulsory community service. He committed a crime during that... He had 5 prior convictions. So, he was sentenced to imprisonment for hooliganism and added to the term of the community service which he failed to serve. All this made 2 years in total".
In the policeman's opinion, the criminals used the "mildness' of the Belarusian justice before. The policeman feels pity only for one of them as he comes from a good family and has not been "lost for the society" so far.
Policeman: "However, he will get lost as well if he stays in this company. He tried to stay away from criminality, and he was convicted and punished only once, long ago. This company hanged out near the shop all the time...I'll tell you what I think in two words, as a human - they are bastards".