The court will consider the case of the American Tater who hit the policeman behind closed doors.

A Moscow court will consider behind closed doors a request from the prosecutor's office for compulsory treatment in a psychiatric hospital of American Joseph Tater, who punched a police officer at the Radisson Hotel. This was announced on April 14 by a correspondent of Izvestia from the courtroom.

It is specified that the prosecutor's office appealed to the court with a request to send a 46-year-old man for compulsory medical treatment to a medical institution, but the defense considers this decision unlawful.

According to Izvestia, in addition to the American passport, Tater also holds citizenship of the Czech Republic, where he was born.

The incident occurred on August 12, 2024. The hotel staff refused to check Tater in due to his lack of a migration card and aggressive behavior. He waved his arms and used obscene language in both Russian and English. After the brawler was taken to the duty station, he continued to behave aggressively, pushed and hit an Interior Ministry employee. As a result, the American was detained for an administrative offense, a criminal case was opened against him under Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Use of violence against a government official)" and detained.

At the end of March this year, a US citizen was released from a pre-trial detention center in Moscow on his own recognizance. After that, he was forcibly hospitalized in the psychiatric hospital named after Nikolai Alekseev.