A criminal lawyer spoke about the possible punishment of the attacker of figure skater Dikiji

Criminal lawyer Maxim Kalinov, in a conversation with , said that the figure skater’s attacker Vladislav Dikidji could face many years in prison.

On Friday, Dikidzhi, 19, said he was attacked in the St. Petersburg metro and threatened with a knife. The skater was not injured. On Saturday, the athlete’s coach, Oleg Tataurov, told that the police had already arrested the attacker, Dikidzhi had been training and his condition was stable.

— The offender will be punished for attempted murder. In all cases, it will be necessary to understand what the intended goal was. For qualification it is important whether the offender wanted to commit suicide or wanted to cause bodily harm. If you want to commit suicide, you risk 6 to 15 years in prison. But when the intention was not carried out, the punishment is naturally less, because the murder did not take place, Kalinov told .

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.