The Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region reported on the detention of a 56-year-old resident of the Kalininsky district of the city in the case of applying “offensive inscriptions about the conduct of the SVO” on the walls of local buildings.
A criminal case was opened against the detainee for vandalism (Part 2 of Article 214 of the Criminal Code) and damage to cultural heritage sites (Article 243 of the Criminal Code). During the search, his mobile phone, laptop and other equipment were confiscated.
According to investigators, at the beginning of the year the man left “offensive inscriptions” about the war in Ukraine on the walls of a church on Gzhatskaya Street and two other buildings recognized objects of cultural heritage: the Polytechnic University and its church. “Fontanka” writes that on the building of the Polytechnic the detainee wrote “University for murderers”, and on the walls of religious buildings — “ROC for murderers.”
The press release of the Ministry of Internal Affairs also states that the suspect “for a certain “I spent time communicating with curators from the territory of Ukraine and was preparing to join a terrorist organization.” According to Fontanka, it was the “Freedom Russia” legion. According to the publication, on the man’s computer, security forces also found correspondence with accounts registered to Ukrainian numbers and designated as “APU”, “OVIR of Ukraine” and so on.
The arrest itself took place on February 14. The publication 78.RU published a photograph of the person involved in the case with blurred eyes and reported that in the early 1990s he worked in the department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Khabarovsk Territory. Fontanka said that at first he was a policeman on guard, then a criminal investigation operative
Mediazona found out that a page in the name of Konstantin Podoshvelev was registered on VKontakte with the same photo. Judging by information on social networks, the man is 56 years old and was last online on February 14. Among his subscriptions there is a community for learning the Ukrainian language and the public page “Typical Policeman.”
Updated at 17:40. Added information from Fontanka.