Two Orsha residents received 15 years of imprisonment for a robbery attack on a taxi driver

March 30, Vitebsk / Olga Bogacheva - BELTA /. Two Orsha residents have been sentenced to long prison terms for a robbery attack on a taxi driver, Vitaly Suzansky, senior prosecutor of the department for supervision of the legality of court decisions in criminal cases of the Vitebsk region prosecutor's office, told a BELTA correspondent. In September 2011, two 17-year-old guys decided to rob a taxi driver. The initiator of the proposal was a lyceum student, whose friend, previously convicted of theft, owed him 1,000 Russian rubles. This is how he proposed the debtor to pay off - by participating in the attack. In the evening on the day of the crime, the guys got into one of the taxis, drove to the outskirts of the city and stopped in a dark place near the fence of colony No. 8. The guy in the front seat, after stopping, stabbed the driver in the chest, but the victim pulled out the weapon. Confused by this turn of events and the sight of blood, the young man demanded the knife back and the money. The driver, in a state of shock, complied with the attackers' demands, pointing them to a folder in the glove compartment. Taking the latter, the young men hid in one of the nearby abandoned buildings. The total amount of loot, which they decided to count later, was only Br13 thousand. The taxi driver blocked the car doors and reported the attack to the dispatcher. The police managed to detain the Orsha residents, who were hiding from the police at their relatives', within a few days. For the robbery attack by a group of persons, the initiator of the crime was sentenced under Part 2 of Art. 207 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus to 5 years of imprisonment, as he did not inflict physical injury on the driver, and his accomplice was sentenced under Part 3 of Art. 207 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus to 9 years of imprisonment. The sentence has entered into legal force. -0-