A man with a live grenade was neutralized in a St. Petersburg cafe

A man who threatened to detonate a live grenade was neutralized in a cafe in St. Petersburg. This was reported on November 22 by the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Irina Volk.

"The police of Frunzensky district of St. Petersburg received a call from a man about a bomb threat in a cafe. He reported that he had in his hand a live grenade with a torn check. The first to arrive at the scene were officers of the patrol and checkpoint service of the Department of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Frunzensky district - senior police sergeant Georgy Isakov and police warrant officer Mikhail Smirnov," she wrote in her Telegram channel.

Volk pointed out that the police officers were able to fix the hand of the attacker with a grenade, and then persuaded him to give the explosive object to the commander of the battalion of the PPSP in Frunzensky district Alexander Pikhotsky. Later, explosion technicians confirmed that the intruder was trying to detonate an F-1 hand grenade. The man turned out to be a 43-year-old resident of the same house in which the cafe was located.

"A criminal case has been opened on the grounds of a crime under Article 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Hooliganism"). <...> Another criminal case will also be initiated - under Article 222 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Illegal circulation of weapons and ammunition")", - indicated Volk.

Earlier, on October 25, it was reported that a strikeball grenade exploded in the hands of a 13-year-old in Kolomna near Moscow, the victim lost part of a finger. The police are conducting an investigation into what happened.