Police detain teenagers who threatened a Moscow subway passenger with a gun

Police detained two underage teenagers who threatened a 16-year-old Muscovite with a gun in the capital's subway. This was reported by the official representative of the Russian Interior Ministry Irina Volk in Telegram-channel on January 9.

"During the daytime in the car of the electric train, following the Troitskaya line, a 16-year-old resident of the capital was approached by two 14-year-old teenagers, who began to insult him and behave defiantly. At the same time, one of them pointed an object similar to a gun in the direction of the victim, and the other filmed what was happening on a smartphone camera," the message reads.

Wolf added that the 16-year-old managed to escape from the scene when the train arrived at the station "Novatovskaya".

It is specified that after the examination of the weapon of the attackers it turned out that the gun was pneumatic.

Investigative authorities opened a criminal case on the grounds of a crime under Part 2 of Art. 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Hooliganism, committed with the use of objects used as weapons, by a group of persons by prior agreement").

Earlier, on January 6, two teenagers beat up an employee of an order delivery point in the north-east of Moscow and stole a phone. It was reported that the teenagers, threatening with weapons, beat up the employee of the checkout point and stole a phone, the value of which is 90 thousand rubles.