Locked up for a request to remove the delay: the UK opened a case because of a nine-year-old child closed in the refrigerator

On behalf of the Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Alexander Bastrykin, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Novosibirsk Region opened a criminal case after an incident in one of the regional stores, where employees closed a nine-year-old boy in a refrigerator. 

“Criminal case on the fact of unlawful deprivation of liberty of a minor, that is, on the grounds of crimes under paragraph “e” of Part 2 of Art.

127 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (illegal deprivation of liberty in respect of a knowingly minor), ”RT said in the press service of the department.

According to investigators, on August 23, 2022, an employee of a store on Selezneva Street in Novosibirsk closed a child in a refrigerated warehouse because the boy asked to remove expired products from the store shelves.

As RT was told in the regional Investigative Committee, investigators are now carrying out a set of measures, as well as interrogating suspects.

“It is too early to talk about the results of the interrogation and the choice of a measure of restraint,” she explained.

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senior assistant to the head of the department for information interaction with the public and the media, senior lieutenant of justice Kristina Oberemchenko.

For delay in the freezer

The father of the child, Mikhail Lapin, told RT that the incident took place in the Maria-Ra store.  

“My son knew that in this store sometimes expired goods come across on the shelves.

So he decided to do a good deed with his friends and put things in order.

They collected half a cart of delay and showed it to the administrator.

But the employees took away the cart, yelled at the children and kicked them out,” says Lapin.

According to the man, a few minutes after that, his son returned to the store alone.

On his smartphone, he opened a page with the law, which says that the delay cannot be sold, and began to read these rules to the store administrator.

“At that moment, a man approached him.

He grabbed his son by the hand and dragged him into the back room, and then closed it in the freezer, where it was -22 ° C.

The son began to call law enforcement agencies.

And he, having heard “hello, police”, immediately opened the door and threw him by the scruff of the neck through the back door.

If he didn’t have a phone, it’s not known how long they would have kept him there,” says the father.

He notes that as soon as he learned about the incident, he went with his son to the store and called the police squad.

“At first, the police took the matter lightly.

Then we talked with our son and already understood what was happening, that this was not a childish prank.

At the age of nine, my son is very principled, he speaks very reasonedly and competently, - explains Lapin.

— I hope that the UK will sort it out and bring an adequate charge.

People working in the service sector should be more adequate.”

In turn, the prosecutor's office for the Novosibirsk region told RT that police officers who did not immediately respond to their father's statements could also be held accountable.

“It was established that the police officers, until the circumstances of the incident were made public, did not actually carry out verification activities, they did not initiate the transfer of materials to the investigators of the Investigative Committee, which violated the requirements of Articles 6.1 and 151 of the Criminal Procedure Law.

In this regard, the prosecutor's office sent information to the head of the police department on August 29, 2022, about the elimination of violations of federal law, ”Sergey Chernov, senior assistant to the prosecutor of the Novosibirsk Region for media relations, told RT.

According to him, the course of the criminal procedure check of the regional Investigative Committee has been put under control.

Customer Complaints

At the same time, in the Maria-Ra store group on social networks, users often complain about expired products.

To this, the administrator replies that the buyer should contact the store for a refund and the product quality control department.

“Now I bought four packs of different SaladBar salads.

I just threw 500 rubles down the drain.

Salads, despite the fact that the expiration date has not expired, seem to be missing (tastes sour).

I opened one (cheese with garlic), tried it - it sours (no, it's not from garlic).

Threw away.

The second is Olivier with ham.

Generally bitter.

I threw it out,” wrote user Sergey Sentinel on August 18.

Also, buyers noted the rudeness of the employees of the distribution network.

“08.2022 at 16:50 I came to the Maria-Ra store in the Rayon shopping center on Popova Street, 70, with a Chihuahua puppy on a leash.

A man in a sports jacket and sweatpants, without a badge, approached.

He said no dog allowed.

When I asked where it was written, he answered: "Download it on the Internet."

I left the store, ”wrote Andrey Chernyaev.

User Dina Krotova told about the incident that happened to her mother.

"Good afternoon!

Today we turned to "Maria-Ra" at 40 years of October, 3a.

At 19:50, my mother was at the checkout, buying sugar, which is packaged in kilograms.

Mom (an elderly person) asked the cashier when weighing why there was 930 g in the bag, the cashier answered her: “I don’t know, I don’t suck it,” the girl wrote on August 4.

RT contacted representatives of the Maria-Ra store, they declined to comment.