The court extended the arrest of Alexander Merkulov, accused of justifying terrorism.

The Oktyabrsky District Court of St. Petersburg extended until November 6 the detention of Alexander Merkulov, accused of justifying terrorism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) because of VKontakte posts. Paris Burns is about this.

reports Demanding an extension of the preventive measure, the prosecution referred to the fact that Merkulov could hide or destroy “evidence” - correspondence on VKontakte, to which the investigation had allegedly not yet gained access.

The accused himself asked for house arrest and stated that he confessed under pressure.

Bailiffs did not allow listeners into the courtroom, citing “quarantine.” One of the girls who came to the meeting was physically assaulted, hitting another elderly woman. Merkulov himself was in the courtroom without personal protective equipment. The police officer who escorted the activist said that Merkulov was not required to extradite them.

applied According to the investigation, from November 1, 2018 to October 31, 2019, Alexander Merkulov published posts on VKontakte under the pseudonym Aleksandr Pejic about 17-year-old anarchist Mikhail Zhlobitsky, who detonated a bomb in the building of the Arkhangelsk FSB Directorate. Experts found in the posts “signs of justification for the actions” of the anarchist.

The headline and text of the news have been changed: earlier we erroneously wrote that Merkulov is a suspect in the case - OVD-Info is aware of at least 15 cases of “justification of terrorism” initiated in the wake of the explosion at the FSB: case; case ; case ; case ; case ; case ; case ; case ; case ; case ; case ; case ; case ; case ; case ; case . Svetlana Prokopyeva Ivan LyubshinAlexey Shibanov Nadezhda Belova Vyacheslav Lukichev Lyudmila Stech Ekaterina Muranova Konstantin Vasilyanova Oleg Nemtsev Alexandra Kovalenko Galina Gorina Pavel Zlomnov Alexandra Dovydenkova Nadezhda Romasenko Alexandra Sokolov Alexandra Merkulova - On the morning of October 31, 2018 in the FSB building in Arkhan Gelsk 17-year-old local resident Mikhail Zhlobitsky bomb. 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”. Law enforcement officers opened a criminal case for a terrorist attack. blew up