BLAGOVESCHENSK, April 25 Underage children destroyed more than 40 tombstones at a cemetery in Zavitinsk, Amur Region, reports the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs.
As the police established, the pogroms on April 23 and 24 were carried out by four children aged 10-11. Three of them are on preventive records in the PDN, they were also placed in a temporary detention center for juvenile offenders, the fourth was not registered. It was established that the eldest of them desecrated the graves by throwing food left by the visitors of the cemetery on the eve of the Radonitsa. Three other children broke tombstones and monuments with their hands and feet.
«It was established that four minors aged 10 and 11 damaged more than 40 tombstones in the local cemetery on the evening of April 24», — the message says.
Now the issue of bringing the parents of minors to administrative responsibility is being resolved. Two children will soon be assigned to a special (correctional) school in the village of Yukhta, one has been placed in a temporary detention center for juvenile offenders of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. A boy born in 2011 will be registered with the PDN.