A drunk St. Petersburg resident was pulled from the Griboyedov Canal by riot police.
The man fell into the water on the night of November 12 and began to drown. A passerby noticed what was happening and called the police. Bastion police officers arrived at the scene, but the victim was so weak that he was unable to get out on his own and not even grab a rescuer.
One of the Russian guards threw the man a rope and helped him out of the water, while another called the emergency services. It turned out that the rescuer was heavily drunk. The soldiers gave him first aid, and then the doctors hospitalized the man.