The FSB announced the detention of three schoolchildren on charges of sabotage

In the Moscow region, three eighth-grade students were detained, who, according to the FSB, damaged railway tracks. This is reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the FSB.

According to the information of the special service, three schoolchildren from the city of Chekhov near Moscow in a telegram “come into contact with unknown persons who, for money, offered them to damage the tracks” for the race in the Kursk direction in the Moscow region.

The FSB claims that the eighth-graders fulfilled the order, damaged the railway tracks (in what way, the department did not say), and also filmed it in order to get money. It is not specified how much the students received.

The FSB also does not report whether a criminal case has been initiated against the detainees and what their status is.

In November, a court in Ufa arrested four students in the case of a terrorist attack as part of an organized group. According to the investigation, 18-year-old Farrukhjon Zokirov, Mustafa Shahbazov and Emin Sadigov, as well as the latter’s 17-year-old brother, attempted to damage electrical equipment on the railway at least five times, speaking out against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and hoping to destabilize the work of the authorities in Bashkortostan.

• After the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, events characterized by the authorities as sabotage, in particular, the detonation of the railway line, occurred repeatedly in Russia. One of the largest acts of sabotage since the beginning of the war in Ukraine took place on the Krymsky bridge, which was damaged after an explosion. In addition, the FSB and other special services regularly report on the prevention of sabotage allegedly being prepared.
• Under the articles on sabotage and terrorism, criminal responsibility is provided for from ten years to life imprisonment. This includes persons who have reached the age of 14.