Volgograd thugs' disfiguring assault case goes to court
The young men were indulging in a sense of impunity during their violent actions.
In Volzhsky, a criminal case has been transferred to court against 23-year-old Matvey Presnyakov and 17-year-olds Stas and Nikita. The young men are accused of hooliganism committed with the use of weapons, intentional infliction of moderate bodily harm on a person in connection with the performance of public duty, by a group out of hooligan motives with items used as weapons. Moreover, one of them is charged with making death threats and assault by a person with a prior conviction for a violent crime.
Recall that the youths were detained in May 2025 after a rampage in a Magnit store.
23-year-old Matvey Presnyakov together with 17-year-olds Stas and Nikita entered the Magnit supermarket in Volzhsky, where they made noise and loudly swore obscenities. A 56-year-old customer who was in the store at the time asked them to behave. The three of them attacked the man, knocked him to the floor and began to brutally beat him, striking the pensioner lying on the floor with their hands and feet, who offered no resistance. The store employees locked themselves in a back room, called private security personnel, and reported the incident to the police.
As a result of the brutal beating, the man suffered serious harm to his health. The Investigative Committee reported that in the hospital he was diagnosed with a closed craniocerebral injury, brain contusion and hematoma, as well as multiple fractures of the facial bones.
Two days later, on May 29, the Volzhsky City Court ordered all three to be held in custody.
Later it emerged that one of the participants, 17-year-old Stas, decided to meet a woman in a bar. The woman had no intention of talking to the intoxicated young man, which she directly told her suitor. This angered him so much that he knocked her down with one blow, then kicked her several times, before leaving the establishment. And two months later in the same bar, after arguing with a patron, he held a knife to his stomach, threatening to use it.
The progress of the criminal investigation was monitored by the head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin. Now it is completed, an indictment has been approved in the case and it has been transferred to court for consideration on the merits. According to the case file, its materials have not yet been received by the court.
