SARATOV, November 24. A court in Saratov found the girl who made a video of spitting at the Eternal Flame on Teatralnaya Square in the city center guilty of desecrating a mass grave and sentenced her to a fine, regional news agency reported. management of the RF IC in the Telegram channel.
On the evening of March 17, a drunken girl began kicking and spitting at the Eternal Flame of the monument to the fighters of the socialist revolution of 1917 in the Radishchev Garden, where she filmed everything on her mobile phone camera and posted the video on the social network. Investigators opened a case, but the decision was overturned by the prosecutor, after which the head of the RF Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, ordered to re-open the case and investigate it.
“The collected… evidence was sufficient to find the 20-year-old girl guilty of committing a crime under Part 1 of Article 244 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Desecration of burial places, gravestones”… The court sentenced the defendant to a fine,” the statement says. message.
The regional prosecutor's office clarifies that the court, taking into account the defendant's personality and her pregnancy, imposed a fine of 30 thousand rubles on the girl.
Earlier, a video appeared on a public page on the social network VKontakte in which a girl used obscene language, spat twice on the Eternal Flame and invited her friend to jump over it, she refused, but began to dance near the monument. As reported in the regional headquarters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the police then identified both participants in the video, the girl was prosecuted for petty hooliganism and, by court decision, was placed under administrative arrest for five days, a preventive conversation was held with her friend.