A court on Sakhalin arrested a 43-year-old local resident for two months, who burned his jacket on the Eternal Flame. This is reported by the regional department of the department.
Sakhalinsk is suspected of damaging an object that perpetuates the memory of those who died during the Great Patriotic War (clause “b” of part 2 of Article 243.4 of the Criminal Code) in the village of Nogliki.
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According to investigators , on the morning of May 27, a Yelchan resident “out of hooligan motives” took off his jacket and threw it into the Eternal Flame near the monument to Warriors fellow countrymen. The jacket caught fire, and the memorial was damaged, according to the UK.
The press service notes that the act of the Sakhalin citizen became known thanks to an eyewitness who «assisted in the capture of the accused.»