In Severodvinsk, a pensioner tried to set fire to the building of the military enlistment office

In Severodvinsk, a 76-year-old pensioner tried to set fire to the building of the military enlistment office, reports the Telegram channel Shot. A criminal case for intentional damage to property was opened against him.

According to the Telegram channel, a pensioner tried to set fire to the commissariat with a Molotov cocktail on June 29. He aimed at the office window, but missed and hit the wall with the bottle. The liquid caught fire on the ground, and a police officer put it out.

During the interrogation, according to Shot, the pensioner told about correspondence with a certain person on the Internet. He persuaded the city resident to “punish family traitors” who were allegedly hiding in the military enlistment office.

According to the appropriate article, the pensioner faces up to five years of imprisonment.

• After the start of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, and especially after the announcement by Vladimir Putin of the so-called partial mobilization, opponents of the war in many regions of Russia began to set fire to military enlistment offices, police departments and city administration buildings. At the moment, more than a hundred such incidents are known. At the same time, no one was injured as a result of the arson.
• At first, criminal cases of arson were considered under the articles of damage to someone else’s property or hooliganism. Later, the General Staff of Russia announced that such cases would be considered acts of terrorism and would be punishable by up to 15 years in prison. 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. Now dozens of citizens have been sentenced to long terms of imprisonment.