MOSCOW, February 7 - RAPSI. In 2012 court bailiffs stopped over 10,000 prohibited items form being brought into the courts, Russia's chief bailiff Alexander Stebakov said Thursday.

He added that the confiscated items included "over 6,000 units of ammunition, 526 guns, over 1,000 gas spray cans and other non-lethal weapons, 2,300 bladed articles and 357 electroshock weapons".

However, Stebakov also said that the bailiffs did not manage to prevent all dangerous incidents. One man, for example, smuggled a hatchet into the Tverskoy District Court, while another individual carried out a self-immolation protest in the same building. He said that service is working to ensure that nothing of this kind ever happens again.