In Kazan, a schoolgirl was given a suspended sentence for setting fire to grass at the military enlistment office

A court in Kazan sentenced an 18-year-old schoolgirl to two years of probation for setting fire to grass at the military enlistment office.

According to the case file, in October 2022, the girl wanted to set fire to the military enlistment office due to dissatisfaction with the war in Ukraine and the mobilization of Russians against it. The schoolgirl did not throw one bottle with an incendiary mixture against the wall of the military enlistment office – only the grass caught fire, she could not throw the second one because she had set fire to her sleeve. “The girl was very scared, so she was unable to complete what she had planned,” the case says. During the arrest, a third bottle with incendiary mixture was found in the accused’s possession.

At the time of the grass fire, the schoolgirl was underage. In October, she was sent under house arrest on charges of attempted destruction of property.

At the court session in the spring, the girl looked depressed, she admitted her guilt “barely raising her eyes from the floor,” Tatar-inform wrote. Her parents, having heard about the failed damage to the state, “sternly and expressively” looked at their daughter, after which she “put her head on her shoulders even more.” The publication also noted that the witnesses, among whom were teachers and classmates of the accused, “were clearly not happy” about being in the courtroom.

• After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, military enlistment offices, police departments, city administration buildings, and “United Russia” receptions began to be set on fire all over Russia. After the announcement of mobilization, the number of such attacks increased many times. At the moment, it is known about almost a hundred requests for arson.
• As a result of the fires, no one was killed or injured. At first, cases were considered under the criminal articles of damage to someone else’s property and hooliganism. The first sentence, in which the arson of the military enlistment office was qualified as a terrorist act, was handed down at the end of January 2023.