The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on the rehabilitation of Nazism against a resident of the city of Pavlov in the Nizhny Novgorod region because of a torn St. George ribbon. This was reported by the press service of the regional department of the UK.
According to investigators, on May 11, a man saw a 17-year-old teenager, on whose clothes a St. George ribbon was fixed. He approached the young man and asked to remove the ribbon, but was refused, after which he tore it off the minor by force and threw it to the ground.
In the actions of a resident of Pavlov, the security forces saw signs of desecration of the symbols of Russia's military glory (Part 3 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code). Baza writes that during the incident, the man also called the teenager «Russian».
According to the Ni Mash telegram channel, the victim was the son of a federal judge from Pavlov, he is in 11th grade. For the first time, a schoolboy encountered a man on the evening of May 10 — then he rudely asked to remove the ribbon from his jacket, after asking the young man the question: “Do you support this?” Having been refused, the man threatened that he would remove the ribbon himself, after which the teenager pushed him away and ran away.
LIFE writes that at the same time, an unknown person shouted «Glory to Ukraine, glory to America, Russia will rot.» The next day, according to Ni Mash, a resident of Pavlovo waited for a minor at the store, knocked him to the ground, beat him, tore off the St. George ribbon and disappeared.