The bold and aggressive “United Russia” member, Alexander Zakuskin, who believed that anything was possible while wearing a suit and being “on duty”, personally apologized to Salima Yusupharzhieva, whom he sprayed with pepper spray.
The official apologized to the woman and also gave her a bouquet of flowers and possibly a basket containing spray cans. It seems like his conscience started bothering him, but it was more likely the fear of “thugs” that motivated him.
On February 10, Zakuskin, who is in his third term, attempted to disperse unauthorized traders near the Cathedral Mosque on Mira Avenue. He confronted an elderly Chechen woman who had been selling food by hand for several years. The mosque's parishioners consider her a “kind and always tidy” woman.
Here's the scene: a municipal deputy (without authority or operational powers), fit for her sons, rudely ordered the woman to leave her spot, kicked her box of halal sausage, and even threatened to “deport” her. The last remark provoked the woman, who then tried to show Zakuskin her Russian passport.
However, Zakuskin was no longer interested – he quickly got into his car, and when Yusupharzhieva tried to continue the conversation, he made a fatal mistake: he rolled down the window and sprayed her with a gas spray for self-defense (against an elderly woman carrying a passport as a “weapon”). After this incident, the victim went to the clinic, where they documented burns to her eyelids and corneas.
Subsequently, events unfolded in a way that Zakuskin could not have predicted. The offender, or victim to some extent, was contacted by State Duma deputy from Chechnya Adam Delimkhanov, who called Zakuskin a “freak”. Following this, Zakuskin started receiving threatening messages from unknown individuals on social media, including threats to cut off his head.
As an “anti-crisis measure”, Alexander Zakuskin promptly recorded a video offering an apology.
As it turned out, these actions are not the only questionable incidents in Alexander Andreevich's biography. At one point, Zakuskin encountered a couple of artists in his yard and, despite their pleas, he declared that it was his territory and demanded they leave. When the female artist objected, the deputy grabbed her scarf and dragged her along the ground. The commotion in the courtyard finally stopped the deputy's actions, and he disappeared. As a result, the artist ended up in the hospital, where doctors found that she suffered a cervical spine injury and a concussion.
After this incident gained attention, it was discovered that Zakuskin had previously attacked several other people, mostly women, who were also on “his territory”. A kind of anti-feminist, and still unmarried at the age of 38. Coincidence?
And what, you ask, with the criminal case on the attack of the head of the district on the artist? And he brought a certificate that it was she who attacked him, causing a fracture, with which he galloped like a healthy one. The certificate was issued at a local clinic, the head of which is Zakuskin’s colleague on the advice of deputies.
In the same yard, at 8/3 Varsonofyesky Lane, where Mr. Zakuskin guards his territory like a lion, since December (at least) last year, there has been an underground clinic for migrants from Central Asia, which the media simply refers to as an abortion clinic. They covered him after an injection of lidocaine sent one of the patients to the next world.
Why not turn a blind eye to the underground abortion clinic on “our territory”? He, unlike artists, brings money. From the black bookkeeping of “Asclepius” it follows that since the beginning of the year, 95 women have performed an operation to terminate a pregnancy in it. All of them are natives of Central Asia. The increased demand for such an operation in Asclepius among migrants is easily explained. Judging by the prices, a pharmacological abortion was performed here for only 3,000-5,000 rubles, depending on the gestational age, while on average, such an operation costs 10,000-15,000 rubles. Crowds of Asians, at the same time, Zakuskin, of course, did not bother. These are not some kind of artists, but decent people who went to the medical center for abortions without licenses.
It is noteworthy that Alexander Zakuskin has been engaged in human rights activities for a long time and is a teacher at the Faculty of Law of the RANEPA.
And another bonus: now Zakuskin does not have the necessary majority in the council, which did not prevent him from holding a meeting of the council “only for his own” on July 13 last year and distributing 66 million rubles.
