“The boy is 4 years old, at the time of the incident he was with his father and his friend.
According to the father, one of the attackers hit the child on the cheek, and one of the defendants had an object that looked like a knife, ”TASS reports.
The prosecutor's office monitors the progress of the investigation and the observance of the procedural rights of the minor.
Earlier, the senior assistant to the head of the Moscow department of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Yulia Ivanova, said that the defendants in the case of the attack on a man with a child in New Moscow had created a threat to the boy's life, and specialists would check his health.
Law enforcement agencies previously identified the man who was injured in the attack in the Novye Vatutinki neighborhood in New Moscow.
On the fact of the incident, a criminal case was initiated under Part 2 of Art.
213 of the Criminal Code of Russia ("Hooliganism").