A man who threatened subway passengers with a gun was detained in Moscow.

In Moscow, a man was detained who, during a conflict with a subway passenger, struck several people and threatened them with a pistol. This was announced on June 23 by the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Irina Volk.

"There was a conflict in an electric train carriage between an attacker and a woman who allegedly kicked him. Two other passengers stood up for the citizen," she wrote on the Telegram channel.

According to Volk, the incident occurred at the Kantemirovskaya metro station. The footage shows that the man pushed the passengers out of the carriage and hit several of them. Then he took out a gun and pointed it at the people. After that, he disappeared.

It is reported that the staff of the criminal investigation department as soon as possible established the identity of the suspect and his whereabouts. The man was detained in Domodedovo, Moscow region.

During the arrest, law enforcement officers seized a stun gun. An investigator of the SU of the Department of Internal Affairs on the Moscow Metro of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Moscow has opened a criminal case under Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Hooliganism").

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The investigation intends to apply for her detention.

In December last year, the Interior Ministry reported that a man threw a hot drink in a woman's face when she forbade him to follow her through the turnstile without paying. A criminal case has been opened against a man by an ATC investigator on the Moscow Metro under Article 116 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Beatings"). As a preventive measure, he was ordered not to leave and to behave appropriately.