A St. Petersburg resident, who was twice fined for wearing a sweatshirt with the inscription “Putin is a thief,” was detained in the case of false reports of mining

In St. Petersburg, after a search, the police detained Konstantin Nadein in the case of a message about the bombing of an IKEA store (). about this . The St. Petersburg resident told Rotunda

According to Nadein, on the morning of April 2, he went to throw out garbage wearing a blue and yellow sweatshirt with the inscriptions “Putin is a thief” and “Glory to Ukraine.” Security forces met him at the entrance and told him that they would search his apartment in connection with a criminal case. During the search, a sweatshirt and phone were confiscated from the St. Petersburg resident, and the police also looked through the contents of his flash drives.

After the search, the man was taken to police department No. 29, where another report was drawn up against him because of the sweatshirt under the article on discrediting the Russian military (Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code). As Nadein notes, he was then taken to the police department of the city of Luga, which is located 140 kilometers from St. Petersburg. There they talked to him again about the jacket, and then asked him about the reports of mining.

In addition, the policeman, in a conversation with Nadein, claimed that he called on residents of Luga to participate in protests at the local stadium. According to the St. Petersburg resident, he does not know where the security forces got such information. Nadein was released from the police department at night the same day.

On March 30, the court fined a St. Petersburg resident 30 thousand rubles for a blue and yellow sweatshirt with inscriptions about Putin and Ukraine. wrote that before that he had already been fined 500 rubles for a jacket, but under an administrative article about petty hooliganism.

Criminal cases of false mining began to be opened against activists after the outbreak of hostilities in Ukraine. On March 5, in connection with this case, searches were carried out at the homes of participants in anti-war protests in St. Petersburg, including femme activist Lelya Nordik, municipal deputies and human rights activists. The security forces also visited Krasnodar lawyer Mikhail Benyash, an activist of the “Environmental Watch for the North Caucasus” and activist Yana Antonova.