On February 28, during the detention, Xenia (she asked not to give her last name) was pushed by an riot policeman, following which she hit her head on the asphalt and lost consciousness.
The riot police carried her, still unconscious, to a paddy wagon. And when the journalists asked the girl to call an ambulance, the policemen suggested “not to invent”. The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs told Znak that the girl had an “epileptic seizure”, the police called an ambulance and handed her over to the doctors. At the same time, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, she did not participate in the rally and she is not threatened with a protocol for participating in the rally.
Kseniya: This was the third anti-war action in which I participated, starting from February 24th. We were walking in a column towards the legislative assembly, and when we entered the alley, I turned around. The last thing I remember: four riot police were standing there, and we ran away from them. After that, I don’t remember anything, I woke up already in the hospital. I learned all the rest of the information, like everyone else, from videos on social networks. In the video from the paddy wagon, which was filmed by the protesters, you can hear how the girl asks the riot police to call an ambulance, they tell her: “Call.” It turns out that this girl called an ambulance, not the riot police. The hospital did not tell me, and the extract did not indicate how I ended up there. No injury, and also why it happened, they did not record. At the hospital, they examined me, checked that I did not have a concussion, and released me two hours later. I was discharged with a diagnosis of “convulsive syndrome, a condition following a convulsive seizure.” How dangerous it is, I don’t know yet. As for an epileptic seizure – I don’t think it’s possible, I’m not an epileptic and have never shown symptoms of this. I feel more or less, periodically my head is spinning, and so – in order. Who hit me, I don’t know and I’m not going to find out. I don’t think it’s possible at all. Today I talked with human rights activists and decided that I would not seek to bring OMON officers to justice – I do not want to get involved in litigation for a couple of years and reach the ECHR. And I will participate in anti-war actions – as soon as I find out that my head is in order and nothing threatens me, I will go right away. I am a lawyer by profession, I worked in one of the government agencies of St. Petersburg. Today I resigned from government agencies – I do not want to work for a state that is waging war once morest Ukraine. Therefore, she wrote a statement of her own free will.
