The Sovetsky District Court of Ryazan arrested a local resident on suspicion of attempted intentional damage to property (part 3 of article 30; part 2 of article 167 of the Criminal Code) due to an attempt to set fire to the military registration and enlistment office and the court building. This was reported by the press service of the court.
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According to investigators, on the night of October 9, a Ryazan citizen, being drunk, decided to set fire to the military registration and enlistment office in the Moscow and Zheleznodorozhny districts of the city, as well as the building of the Moscow District Court. Then he entered the territory of the court with two Molotov cocktails, set fire to them and threw them out the window on the first floor, according to the investigation.
According to the telegram channel «Moustache Kurakina», the man's name is Nikolai Baranov. “He did not deny his guilt and explained his actions with ideological considerations,” the authors of the channel specified without citing a source.
After the announcement of mobilization in Russia, cases of arson of military registration and enlistment offices and local administrations became more frequent. Buildings burned in Novosibirsk, Kazan, Krasnoyarsk, Nizhny Novgorod. At the end of September, car tires were set on fire on the porch of the United Russia office in Bashkortostan.