The Samara Regional Court abolished the sentence of director Grigory Beresnev from Togliatti, who was accused of non-fulfillment of the obligations to educate a minor (article 156 of the Criminal Code) due to reading the play with teenagers, the Mediazone Council of President Eva Merkachev reported that the Samara Regional Court “fully justified Director ”, and now he has the right to rehabilitation. At the end of 2024, the court found the director guilty of non-fulfillment of the obligations to educate a minor, but the case was terminated due to the expiration of the statute of limitations. The defense challenged the court’s decision to achieve complete rehabilitation. Extremely, Beresnev was accused of four articles: in addition to non -fulfillment of the obligations of education, he was charged with the commission of depraved actions against children, the violent actions of a sexual nature against them and the spread of pornography. Six girls and their mothers took place the victims in the case. The director threatened 25 years in prison. As a result, the prosecutor’s office refused three accusations, without finding the corpus delicti. They brought in relation to Beresnev after he decided to put the play of British playwright Reychard about dysfunctional teenage girls in Togliatti in Togliatti. According to him, an adapted version was prepared for production – without curses and candid scenes. At the same time, as the local media reported, the performance at different times was in different cities of Russia under different names. After the first reading, the children told parents what they did in the studio. One of the mothers found the original play on the Internet, read it and wrote a complaint to the prosecutor. “Before going to the prosecutor’s office, my mother met me. However, we did not find understanding among ourselves. Mom demanded that I be fired. And yes, they fired me. But the car was spun by that time. The expert of the Volga District Bureau of Information Analytics and Expertise came to the conclusion that the play contains “Material of a pornographic nature with the image of minors”. And I found signs of other crimes, ”the director. Berosnev said under house arrest. Lawyer Sergei Khalchenko said that the victims during the court “asked to leave Gregory alone.” As a result, the defense achieved independent examinations that came to the conclusion that there are no signs of pornography in the play, and from the victims “no one was injured.” The author of the original play by Rebecca Prechard also performed in defense of the director. (Tagstotranslate) News
