In St. Petersburg, a student was arrested for throwing a Molotov cocktail at a building with the inscription “military registration and enlistment office”

The Petrodvortsovy District Court of St. Petersburg arrested local student Viktor Melnikov for two months in the case of arson of the military registration and enlistment office building. The Fontanka publication is about this.

reports The young man will remain in the pre-trial detention center (SIZO) until at least November 23. According to investigators, on the evening of September 21, Melnikov threw a Molotov cocktail at the window of a building on Ilikovskaya Street, 1A, on which hung a sign “military registration and enlistment office.” The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs states that the current military registration and enlistment office is located in the house next door, and the building that was set on fire is on the balance sheet of the property relations department of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

stated The prosecution stated at the trial that Melnikov’s actions caused damage to the building in the amount of at least 250 thousand rubles. The defendant admitted guilt, and in connection with this, as well as for health reasons, the defense asked him to choose a preventive measure that was not related to arrest.

About the arrest of Melnikov on September 26. A criminal case was opened against him for the intentional destruction or damage of someone else's property (Article 167 of the Criminal Code). During the search, according to Fontanka, chemical reagents, negatives of photographs of the building on fire, as well as religious and nationalist literature were confiscated from him.

it became known - Since the beginning of a full-scale war with Ukraine, military registration and enlistment offices have been set on fire in different cities of Russia. After the announcement of “partial mobilization,” such arson attacks became more frequent—several dozen such cases were reported. Some of the criminal cases in connection with the arson of military registration and enlistment offices, as well as police departments, the FSB and administrative buildings are listed in our “anti-war case”. OVD-Info suggests that at least some of these actions were a response to military actions by the Russian state. known to the guide