A resident of Omsk was arrested for attempting to set fire to the military enlistment office
In Omsk, the Kuibyshevsky district court arrested for two months a local resident accused of trying to set fire to a military enlistment office. This is reported by “Mediazona” with reference to the Omsk site “BC 55”. SHOT Telegram channel reports the same. The name of the arrested person is presumably Anton Platov. According to SHOT, the case against him has been initiated under the article on intentional damage to someone else’s property.
According to the investigation, the arrested person was involved in the failed arson of the military enlistment office on Magistralnaya Street in Omsk on the morning of February 9. It is alleged that he threw several Molotov cocktails into the windows on the second floor of the building, but the bottles with the incendiary mixture did not break and there was no fire. The police were released by the military enlistment office employees who came to work in the morning and saw bottles and a broken window. The motives of the arrested person’s actions are not reported. “Mediazona” writes that earlier he allegedly hid from military records.
After the beginning of the Russian large-scale invasion of Ukraine in February of last year, there were attempts to set fire to several dozen military enlistment centers and other state institutions in Russia. Almost none of such requests led to large fires, and there were also no deaths or injuries. More than 10 people were sentenced under various articles of the Criminal Code, as a rule, to short terms.
However, recently, after the announcement of mobilization, requests for arson of military enlistment offices increasingly began to be qualified as acts of terrorism – which entails much more severe punishments. On January 31, for the first time in Russia, a court issued a verdict on the article of terrorism for the arson of the military enlistment office. Vladyslav Borysenko, the defendant from the Khanty-Mansiysk District, was sentenced to 12 years in prison.
