As ASTRA found out, on the night of February 28, residents of Irtysh Passage in Barnaul called the police, as people were loudly cursing and banging on the walls in one of the houses. When the police arrived at the scene, they saw a drunken group in the house from where the noise was coming from, who began insulting the security forces. At some point, a woman from the company attacked policemen. Another participant in the drunken company, 55-year-old Vladimir Klementyev, a former Russian serviceman with multiple previous convictions, came to her aid (pictured). A criminal case was opened into the attack on police officers under P.1 of Art.318 of the Criminal Code of the Russia (use of violence against a government official). It is unknown whether Klementyev has been detained.
As ASTRA found out, Vladimir Klementyev was previously convicted of robbery, intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm and double murder. In 2019, as the local press wrote, he stabbed a father and daughter to death in Barnaul “with extreme cruelty”.
“On November 8, 2019, the previously convicted Vladimir Klementyev, along with his roommate and her father, drank alcohol in the apartment of the latter. At some point, there was a verbal conflict between them, during which Klementyev attacked the victims with a knife. He struck the woman with at least 13 blows in different parts of the body, and the man with at least eight. The victims died at the scene from heavy blood loss,” wrote publication Incident Barnaul.
The Altai Regional Court found Vladimir guilty of the murder of two people committed with extreme cruelty, and sentenced him to 19 years in prison.
After the start of the full-scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine, Klementyev enlisted in the war and was subsequently wounded and then pardoned by Putin. He posted photos from the war and the military hospital on his social networks in 2023. Thus, he was sentenced to 19 years in prison for a double murder and was released before serving even a third of his sentence.
Earlier, Putin confirmed that he was signing decrees pardoning “prisoners participating in the SMO” wrote Russian state-run TASS news agency. He mentioned “the minimum recidivism rate among the fighters of the SMO from among the former prisoners”.
