In St. Petersburg, the police detained a 20-year-old guy on suspicion of robbery at a flower shop. According to the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Northern Capital and the Leningrad Region, the incident occurred on February 7 at about 11:00.
The video from the surveillance camera shows that the attacker chose a flower in a pot, when he and the seller approached the cash register, the man began to threaten the woman, demanding money, sprayed a gas canister in her face.
The saleswoman showed him that there was no money in the cash register. The young man wanted to run away, taking a flower with him, but the girl took it away and began to beat the attacker on the head with it. After that, the robber hastily left the store without taking anything.