In Belgorod, a girl who lighted from a candle in the church was fined

In Belgorod, the justice of the peace found him guilty under part 1 of Article 148 of the Criminal Code (insulting the feelings of believers) and fined 15 thousand rubles a 22-year-old woman who cooked in the temple from a candle and posted photos on the Internet. This was reported on the website of the regional prosecutor's office. The maximum sanction under this article is the year of imprisonment.

According to the prosecution, the woman four times, on June 16, 2015, January 22, May 23 and May 26, 2016, posted photos from the phone on her page on VKontakte, in which she lights a cigarette from a candle in one of the churches in the center of Belgorod. According to the position of the prosecution, these actions "indicate a clear disrespect for society and believers, insult their religious feelings."

The name of the convicted person is not revealed.

The initiation of the criminal case became known on February 5. This is the first case of applying the 148th article in the region.

On May 3, it was reported that the TFR conducts a check on the fact of accommodation on the VKontakte social network by a certain resident of Kemerovo photography where she lights up a candle in the church. As she handed over the VSE42.ru portal, the girl first confirmed to one of the social networks that she was in the photo, but then she told the publication that she took the photo from the page of another user, and now she lived in Kiev, although she was born in a born in Kiev. Kemerov.