A resident of Nerekhta was brought to administrative responsibility for using a swastika on a social network.

In the Kostroma region, a 30-year-old resident of Nerekhta was brought to administrative responsibility for promoting Nazi paraphernalia or symbols on the Internet.

November 23, 2017 in the Kostroma region, an administrative protocol was drawn up under Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (propaganda or public demonstration Nazi paraphernalia or symbols).

According to the case file, the 30-year-old a resident of Nerekhta posted an image of a swastika in free access on a social network. Law enforcement officers visited an Internet user on home. A resident of Nerekhta reported that he did not know that posting an image of a Hakenkreuz prohibited.

Sources

• In the town of Nerekhta, Kostroma Region, police brought to justice a social network user who posted a prohibited swastika symbol on his page // Official site of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Kostroma region. 2017. December 1.