In Symferopol, smoke flares were used to disrupt the screening of the film about Pussy Riot

On October 2 in the evening, a group of unknown masked malefactors disrupted the screening of the film «The Showcase Proceeding: Pussy Riot’s History», which was conducted at the Simferopol art center «Karman». This information comes from the Crimean public activists Oleksiy Arunian and Oleksandra Dvoretska on their pages in social networks, Radio Svoboda informs.

According to Arunian, at the beginning of the screening, several unknown people of athletic build broke into the art center and started to beat people who were there. The organizers managed to close the door to the audience hall. The assaulters tried to break the door, but failed.

As Arunian informed, the malefactors managed to throw a smoke flare into the hall and beat two volunteers who were not in the hall. Also, two spectators who were going to the screening, suffered.

Ambulance and police were called to the location. The organizers and members of the Cinema Club filed formal complaints to the police based on the fact of the assault, informs the Argumenty Nedeli. Krym news media outlet.

The documentary «The Showcase Proceeding: Pussy Riot’s History» directed by Mike Lerner and Maksim Pozdorovskin is about the members of the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot, who became well-known after the scandalous event in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, and are now serving a prison time.

The Head of the public relations department of the Chief Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea Olga Kondrashova in the comment for Telekrytyka stated that they received the complaint about the assault, the application was registered in the Unified register, and was identified as a hooliganism case. «The police conducts all necessary measures to identify the people and facts pertaining to the disruption of the screening», the speaker of the Crimean police said.

In June, at the art center «Karman», unidentified individuals tried to disrupt the screening of the almanac «Open access» by throwing a smoke flare into the audience hall.