The correspondent of channel 78 was diagnosed with a concussion after the attack.

Alyona Chernysheva, a beaten journalist of the 78 TV channel, was diagnosed with a concussion, a closed craniocerebral injury, bruises and a bruise of the lower jaw on the left. This was announced by the victim herself on May 12.

"He drags me the same way. It's hard for me to breathe, we go out here, go behind the house, there. A couple of meters after the entrance, I start shouting in the street: "Help! Save me!" There were some people here on the playground, but no one paid attention," Chernysheva told about the details of the attack.

The man struck the reporter and knocked her down, after which he dragged her along the ground and began to strangle her. The girl managed to fight back, but the unknown man hit her in the face several more times. After the attack, the journalist wrote a statement to the police.

Shock incident: cases have been opened on the fact of the attack on the journalist of the Izvestia News Center

The perpetrator faces imprisonment for obstructing the work of the media.

Earlier on May 12, it became known that an unknown man attacked Chernysheva during her work, when she was communicating with neighbors of a teenager injured by a firecracker explosion.

On the same day, the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Irina Volk, announced that the investigation department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Nevsky district of St. Petersburg had opened a criminal case into the attack. Later, a case was also initiated under Part 3 of Article 144 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Obstruction of the legitimate professional activities of journalists, combined with violence against a journalist").