In St. Petersburg, was an attempt to arrest leaders of the art group "War"
Oleg Vorotnikov managed to escape, but his wife Natalia Sokol and their young son had to spend the night in a police station
Natalia Falcon and his son Kasper
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participants the art group "War" this week, faced with a new attempt at arrest. According Artinfo, the situation is reminiscent of a scene from the movie spy.
After a meeting in St. Petersburg hotel with two German journalists, Ulf Kalkroytom (Ulf Kalkreuth) and Igor Nedorezova, Oleg Vorotnikov and his wife Natalia Sokol with their young son to shoot reportage Kasper took to the streets. Suddenly a car drove up to the group, and Vorotnikov announced in the international search, sensing something was wrong, tried to escape on his bike. plainclothes policemen ran out of the car and went in pursuit of disgraced art activist, threatening him with weapons, but managed to escape Vorotnikov.
After fleeing police Vorotnikova turned its attention to Natalia Sokol and her son with a young child Falcon were arrested and spent the night at the police station without charge of any kind were the charges. As written Artinfo, Natalia Sokol was banned even call my lawyer. After visiting the a group of journalists and human rights activist Joseph Gabunia Falcon and his son were released. It is not clear on what basis was the detention of Natalia Sokol, since, according to Artinfo, two criminal cases pending against the "war" earlier, has recently been officially closed.
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