A criminal case was opened following the attack on figure skater Dikidzhi in St. Petersburg

A criminal case was opened under the article “Hooliganism” against the man who attacked the skater Vladislav Dikidji in the St. Petersburg metro, reports the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region.

It is noteworthy that on the evening of February 2, the police received a message that on the section between the Chernaya Rechka and Pionerskaya metro stations an unknown person hit a young man in the head and demanded to give up his place , threatening him with a knife.

On Friday, Dikiji, 19, said on social media that he had been attacked in the St. Petersburg metro and threatened with a knife.

— Shortly after, during operational-search activities, officers of the Primorsky District were arrested by the second participant in the conflict. It turned out to be a 61-year-old local resident of Shcherbakova Street, working as a service engineer in a private company.

According to the inmate, he had a conflict with a young man because he did not give up his seat to a woman in a subway car, during which the man took out scissors and threatened his opponent with them, the report says.

The suspect was arrested and the scissors were confiscated.

On Saturday, the skater’s coach, Oleg Tataurov, told that Dikidzhi had been training and his condition was stable.

Dikidzhi won a silver medal at the Russian Championship, which took place in December 2023 in Chelyabinsk. The skater also won two stages of the Russian Grand Prix, in Kazan and Moscow.