Police have detained a man suspected of painting images of horns and hooves on the walls of a temple in Voronezh.

At the end of July 2012 in Moscow a wanted 35-year-old man was detained, in respect of whom February 2012, a criminal case was initiated under Art. 214 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (vandalism).

The man is suspected that in May 2011 applied graffiti to the facade of the Ilyinsky Church in Voronezh with the image horns and hooves.

From February to July 2012, the man was on the run. Police She also said that he considers himself a Satanist.

Sources

• Valagin A. Detained Satanist who defiled the Voronezh temple // Russian newspaper. 2012. July 21.