Italian police cars. File photo ROME, April 13 Unidentified people threw a Molotov cocktail at the villa of Russian businessman Timur Zainutdinov in the town of Castiglioncello in the Italian province of Livorno, writes the local newspaper il Tirreno. The villa, located in the city on the coast of the Ligurian Sea, belongs to a 37-year-old (according to other sources, 38-year-old) construction magnate from Tatarstan. He used the villa only during the summer vacation, at the time of the arson attempt no one lived in it. ComoFirst about the fire was reported by a passerby: the entrance grate of the house suffered from the fire. The damage, the newspaper writes, is assessed as insignificant. As il Tirreno notes, the investigators take into account all possible hypotheses and do not exclude that the attack could be related to Russia's special operation in Ukraine. The carabinieri are restoring the circumstances of the incident on the basis of CCTV footage. Last week, unknown persons broke into two houses of TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov on Lake Como. In one of the villas, they set fire to car tires in it without causing damage to the house, in another house they painted the water in the pool red and left inscriptions against Russian actions on the fence. Local authorities suggest that the actions of the perpetrators were defiant and ostentatious. In March, the Finvardia of Italy froze Solovyov's property after the TV presenter was included in the EU sanctions list in connection with the events in Ukraine. The total cost of Solovyov's houses in Como is 8 million euros.
