A sentence was passed in Kostroma for anti-Semitic inscriptions and drawings

On January 22, 2010, in Kostroma, a verdict was passed in a criminal case against a 27-year-old local resident accused under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting ethnic hatred or enmity). The court found the young man guilty and sentenced him to 8 months. suspended sentence with a probationary period of 1 year 6 months.

It was established that in December 2008, the accused in the entrance of the house on Peace Square in Kostroma, in the presence of his friends, wrote slogans and drawings with a marker on the walls of the landings, "containing the expressions "Kill the Jew!", "Kill the Jew!" and drew a fascist swastika .

According to the conclusion of the linguistic expertise, "the application of these inscriptions and drawings are actions aimed at humiliating the dignity of a person belonging to both the ethnic group of Jews and the confessional group of Jews in the form of a derogatory name for these groups" Jews "and in the form of a direct call to commit violence against person" .

The verdict entered into force on February 2 this year.

Sources

• Kostroma was convicted for actions of an extremist nature // Official website of the Prosecutor's Office of the Kostroma Region. 2010. February 3.