A lieutenant colonel from the Sverdlovsk police was dismissed for attacking a neighbor over grapes.

      In Alapaevsk, police lieutenant colonel Maxim M. has been dismissed from the force; he had earlier attacked his neighbor with a fire extinguisher. The lawyer Sergey Samkov, who represents the interests of the injured woman, told the EAN agency about the officer's dismissal.

      The conflict between the neighbors over the garden occurred, EAN writes, because of wild grapevines. From the lieutenant colonel's garden they spread onto the woman's plot, damaging her fruit crops. While cutting back the weeds she called through the fence to M., who was in his garden.

      In response the man began to argue and threatened to spray acid on the plants to cause irritation to the neighbor's hands. It ended with M. spraying a fire extinguisher directly in her face.

      The woman suffered injuries classified as "minor" — after going to the emergency room she underwent six days of inpatient treatment at the city hospital.

      At first M. was offered to quietly resign of his own accord, but the lieutenant colonel refused, citing that he had one year left until retirement, an informed source told EAN. After that a decision was made to dismiss M. for negative reasons — in connection with committing an offense that tarnishes the honor of a police officer and discredits the authority of the Interior Ministry.