The court arrested teenagers in the case of setting fire to the Mi-8 helicopter

The court in Omsk arrested two 16-year-old teenagers who were previously detained for setting fire to the Mi-8 helicopter at the air base. This was reported by the Telegram channel of the press service of the courts of the Omsk region.

Teenagers are charged under the criminal article of terrorist attack. Each of them was placed in custody for two months.

Earlier it was reported that schoolchildren sneaked into the military airbase, threw a “Molotov cocktail” into the helicopter and ran away. Soon they were detained by the police. The entire front part of the helicopter was completely burnt. According to Shot, the car has already been written off.

It is claimed that the schoolboys were persuaded to set fire by some “Ukrainian curators” who contacted them in one of the messengers. They promised to pay the teenagers 20 thousand dollars. However, after schoolchildren set the helicopter on fire, the “curators” stopped communicating and deleted the correspondence.

At the beginning of September, a similar incident occurred in Noyabrsk, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District. Then two teenagers, 13 and 14 years old, entered the territory of the airport and set fire to the civilian Mi-8 helicopter parked there. It is reported that they were also contacted in the Telegram messenger by unknown people who promised a large sum of money for arson.

• Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, military enlistment offices, police departments, city administration buildings, and “United Russia” receptions have been set on fire all over Russia. After the announcement of mobilization, the number of such attacks increased. In some cases, the detainees claimed that they were persuaded by strangers over the Internet to commit arson.
• No one died as a result of the fires. Those detained on charges after the spring of 2022, when the cases became massive, are most often charged with an article about terrorism. More than 30 cases have already ended with a sentence, the most severe of which – 19 years in prison – was given to two anti-war activists for setting fire to the city administration building in the Chelyabinsk region.