An anarchist from Karelia said that they came to search her in the case of justifying terrorism

In Medvezhyegorsk, FSB officers in the Republic of Karelia came to search the anarchist Ekaterina Muranova for her comment under a post about the explosion in Arkhangelsk. A criminal case has been opened against her for justifying terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2). Muranova herself reported this.

Because of OVD-Info, employees of the FSB and the Center for Countering Extremism came early in the morning of March 20 to the apartment where the anarchist’s parents live and where she herself was at that moment. “My parents opened the door for them, masked people came in, turned my whole house over, and found nothing,” the girl said. Law enforcement officers did not have a search warrant. After a two-hour stay in the apartment, the anarchist was taken to the local FSB office, where she was interrogated until eight in the evening.

“When I was brought to the station to give evidence, I was told that I could be imprisoned for up to seven years if I did not cooperate with them,” continues Muranova. The girl was offered to write a confession if she wanted to avoid serious punishment. She is due to be charged at the end of March.

“I am accused of justifying terrorism in my comment on VKontakte; I wrote under the People’s Self-Defense post that Zhlobitsky is a hero. I didn’t mean that he was a hero for committing this act, I wanted to say that he sacrificed his life for the sake of his ideas,” Muranova explains her act.

because of because of the anarchist lives with her husband and six-year-old child. She does not have money for a lawyer, since the wife spends all her money on treating her son, who has asthma. The apartment where Muranova usually lives with her family was also searched. In addition to the activist’s phone, security forces seized the child’s tablet. “My husband was also detained and asked if he knew about my anarchist views,” the girl says. “It turns out he knew nothing about my comments and publications on my wall.”

“Before, when I lived in St. Petersburg, I had the opportunity to go to meetings, hold meetings, and distribute leaflets. Now in Karelia I have already moved away from these affairs, everything has calmed down, and now, four months after the comment, they come to me and say that I justify terrorism,” the girl concluded.

Earlier, the Respublika news agency, without indicating the source of information, said that a criminal case had been opened in Karelia to justify terrorism against a resident of Medvezhyegorsk. The publication provides a linguistic examination, which found that the girl’s posts contain “signs of justification for the ideology of committing explosions, arson or other actions that frighten the population and create the danger of human death.”

reported 27-year-old - On the morning of October 31, 2018, in the FSB building in Arkhangelsk, local resident Mikhail Zhlobitsky bombed. Three employees were injured, the young man himself died. A few minutes before the explosion, a message about the attack appeared in the telegram open chat of “Rebel Rebel”. A criminal case has been opened regarding a terrorist attack. A 17-year-old blew up - In November, Prometheus administrator Vyacheslav Lukichev was detained on suspicion of justifying terrorism. He published the suicide note of the perpetrator of the explosion in the FSB building in Arkhangelsk and called him a hero. Lawyer that the Kaliningrad anarchist was interrogated for 36 hours and beaten. On March 14, the court found Lukichev guilty and fined 300 thousand rubles. telegram channel stated admitted - We are talking about how, after the explosion in the Arkhangelsk FSB, law enforcement agencies began to look for his accomplices. Anti-fascists, libertarians, socialists and even Komsomol members began to be called to the police and the FSB. told