A criminal case has been instituted in Astrakhan on the fact of desecration of eternal fire

A criminal case has been instituted in Astrakhan on the fact of desecration of eternal fire. The incident, which occurred the day before, was recorded on a video surveillance camera: five drunken young people fired fire in the fraternal garden. Everyone was detained. The Duma is now deciding what to do with eternal lights throughout Russia: either to extinguish, as Zhirinovsky suggests, or to put "youth to protect from another youth."

An outfit of the patrol service detained attackers about 03:00 Moscow time on February 23. “The company of young people was drunk for quite some time at the eternal fire in the fraternal garden. CCTV cameras recorded that when they moved away from the memorial, the eternal fire was extinguished. How they managed to do this,” said Peter Rusanov, head of the press service of the Air Force in the Astrakhan Region.

Among the detainees are two Astrakhan and three guests from the Stavropol Territory. They consumed alcohol and walked in the center of Astrakhan. What was moving them to defile a monument to the victims of fascism and to obscure the eternal flame, they cannot explain clearly.

According to Rusanov, "a criminal case was instituted against one young man under the article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation" Abuse over the bodies of the deceased and the burial places of participants in the fight against fascism ", the article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation" Hooliganism "is also charged with two minors. They released home.

Zhirinovsky offers to extinguish

One of the first in the Duma, the incident in Astrakhan was commented by the head of the LDPR Vladimir Zhirinovsky. He on the air of the Russian News Service proposed to completely remove eternal lights from all cities so as not to provoke vandals.

Member of the State Duma Committee on Labor, Social Policy and Affairs of Veterans Valery Trapeznikov does not agree with this. “I believe that this is wrong. It is necessary to educate, explain, and maybe even return to the old, which was in Soviet times - the detachments of youth who would guard them from another part of the youth. In the end, a police post,” the deputy said. He is sure: "The younger generation is for the eternal flame ... This is folk memory."