In the village of Berezovo, Kemerovo region, two schoolchildren are suspected of damaging 166 tombstones in a cemetery. This was reported by the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The Investigative Committee began a pre-investigation check under the article on the destruction of military graves (243.4 of the Criminal Code) — according to the department, teenagers, among other things, broke the tombstones of war participants in Ukraine.
On the night of June 16, a resident of the village of Berezovo called the Novokuznetsky department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. “An investigative team was immediately dispatched to the signal. Police officers found that unknown persons damaged 166 tombstones, dropping them to the ground,” the police said.
Criminal investigation officers and an investigator who arrived at the scene interviewed the witness and “established that two schoolchildren were involved in the commission of illegal acts at the ages of 13 and 15 years old, who came from Novokuznetsk to visit relatives.”
The teenagers and their parents were taken to the police. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the schoolchildren said that they were drunk and damaged the graves. A report was drawn up against the father of one of the teenagers under the article on minors being in a state of intoxication (20.22 of the Administrative Code). It involves a fine of up to two thousand rubles.
Telegram channel Baza published a video filmed by a resident of Berezovo. According to her, “70% of the cemetery” was damaged. “All the monuments are broken and even the crosses are broken,” says the woman.