The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Oleg Vazdaev, a resident of Krasnodar, to six years in a strict regime penal colony in the case of an attempted arson of a military registration and enlistment office. This was reported to OVD-Info in court.
Two years out of seven Krasnodar will spend in prison. The prosecutor asked to appoint him 7 years in prison. According to the case card, the verdict was passed the day before, on August 23.
According to investigators, on the night of September 25, Vazdaev threw two Molotov cocktails in the direction of the military registration and enlistment office of the Western and Kuban districts of Krasnodar on Yana Poluyan Street. One of the bottles caught fire near the building, the second did not break. The man said that he decided to do this after the announcement of mobilization — he was afraid for his loved ones and he himself was afraid of being drafted to war.
Vazhaev was detained on September 29 and was first charged with the deliberate destruction of property in the amount of 40 million rubles (Article 167 of the Criminal Code), however, later the charge was reclassified as an article about a terrorist attack (Part 1 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code).
Aleksey Avanesyan, the man’s lawyer, told Sota in March that after being detained at the police station on Oktyabrskaya Street, his client was put on a gas mask “to drown out the screams”, laid on the floor, fixed with a chair placed above him, and shocked . The security forces, according to the defender, demanded from Vazhdaev recognition of funding from Ukraine.
A Krasnodar resident told Avanesyan about the torture when he noticed a mention of a pendant in the case file. Vazdaev explained that, «wishing to stop the electric shocks,» he told the security forces about a parcel with five thousand dollars that was waiting for him at the post office, but only the pendant was in the package, which was eventually mentioned in the materials.
How Sota Avetisyan told Sota that the verification of the facts of torture has not been completed.