ST. PETERSBURG, March 27 A resident of St. Petersburg, Nikolai Konashenok, accused of justifying terrorism, said in court that he regrets posting his comments about the terrorist attack in Crocus city hall» and did not know that they would cause such a reaction.
«I posted this because I was shocked by the news of the terrorist attack. I was expressing my concern that the terrorist attack could take other forms on a larger scale on other platforms. Of course, I regret that I formed it this way, because I did not expect that it would cause such a reaction that it caused,” he told reporters.
The Dzerzhinsky District Court of St. Petersburg began a hearing to select a preventive measure for Konashenko.
Earlier it was reported that a criminal case was opened against 41-year-old individual entrepreneur Nikolai Konashenko under Article Part 2 of Art. 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (justification of terrorism). He was charged. According to investigators, Konashenok published comments on the Internet justifying the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall.
On Tuesday, the head of the United Press Service of the Courts of St. Petersburg, Daria Lebedeva, reported that Konashenok received 14 days of administrative arrest for petty hooliganism. March 25 Actions in memory of the victims of the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall
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The Main Department of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region on Monday evening announced the detention at Pulkovo airport of a 41-year-old local resident, whose statements on the Internet allegedly had “signs of extremism.” According to the police, the detainee was planning to leave Russia. As a source in the emergency services clarified, it turned out to be Nikolai Konashenok, who had previously spoken ambiguously about the terrorist attack in the Moscow region. After his arrest, the press service of the regional headquarters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation distributed a video in which Konashenok asked for forgiveness from the audience and said that he did not support terrorism.
Konashenok’s posts were deleted, but managed to cause a wide public outcry. Thus, State Duma deputy Vitaly Milonov said that he would appeal to the Ministry of Internal Affairs with a demand to put the author “on the same bench with terrorist creatures.” His wife Roxana Shatunovskaya, who held the position of general director of the New Holland ANO, said on Monday that she resigned from her position because of her husband’s position, which she condemns, but “stays with the family.”