In Kansk, a teacher was sentenced to two years for shooting a poster of the Ministry of Defense

In the city of Kansk, Krasnoyarsk Territory, the court sentenced an English teacher who shot a banner advertising contract military service to two years and ten days in prison. Lawyer Vladimir Vasyn told “Prospekt Mira” about this.

The prosecutor asked for two years and eight months in prison for the defendant. The teacher was accused of hooliganism and threatening to kill. According to the investigation, on October 16, the defendant (whose name is withheld) shot a banner in the center of Kansk from a hunting rifle belonging to him, and on the way home threatened to kill a neighbor. He explained his concession by concerns about the beginning of mobilization. According to the resident of Kansk, he did not want the soldiers to die in the course of hostilities.

He is also accused of setting fire to the military enlistment office in Kansk.

His mother claimed that after the arrest in October 2022, bruises, traces of electric shocks, traces of handcuffs, and scraped knees were visible on the body of the sleeper. The arrested teacher also told his mother that he was threatened with rape. He claims that they tried to force him to confess to the arson of the military enlistment office in Kansk. At the same time, during the examination, the traumatologist recorded only bruises and abrasions, and did not find any signs of torture on the detainee’s body. Police officers also came to the mother and asked her to convince her son to confess to the arson of the military enlistment office.

• The military enlistment office in Kansk was set on fire on September 24. An unknown person threw a bottle of flammable liquid through the window of the first floor.
• 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. In total, since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine, military enlistment offices have been set on fire more than 70 times.
• The General Staff of the Russian Federation announced that cases of arson of military enlistment centers would be considered acts of terrorism and would be punishable by up to 15 years in prison.
• 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.