The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Tver Region detained a native of Dagestan suspected of beating a girl in Tver, the department’s press service reports.

According to Moskovsky Komsomolets, the detainee is an MMA fighter.

— The investigation unit of the Kalininsky Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia is investigating a criminal case under paragraph “c” of part 2 of Article 112 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Intentional infliction of moderate harm to health” against a 25-year-old resident of the Moscow region, a native of the Republic of Dagestan.

A young man is suspected of beating his 20-year-old girlfriend. It was preliminary established that on December 19 he was at the victim’s home. During the conflict, the young man tied up the girl and brutally beat her for several hours, causing multiple injuries to her face and body. During an examination at the hospital, doctors recorded fractures of the girl’s facial bones, hematomas and a traumatic brain injury. The victim required surgery followed by long-term treatment.

Criminal investigation officers quickly established the location of the attacker. Police detained a suspect in the Moscow region. The defendant was placed in a temporary detention center. Police officers are petitioning the court to select a preventive measure against the young man in the form of detention, says a statement from the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Tver Region.