“I confirm that my client, Aleksey Baryshnikov, has been declared insane by experts from the Serbsky Institute.
The court can release him from criminal liability by sending him to compulsory treatment, ”TASS quotes him.
According to the representative of the defense Baryshnikov, the materials of his case will be sent to the prosecutor's office in the near future to approve the decision on his compulsory treatment.
On May 23, Baryshnikov took hostages in one of the capital's branches of Alfa Bank and threatened to blow up the building. At the same time, after a special operation to arrest him, no explosives were found. The Khamovnichesky District Court detained him for two months.