“Gorod55” and Baza: a man suspected of setting fire to a transformer and three cars with the letters Z was detained in Omsk

In Omsk, a man was detained after setting a transformer on fire. told Gorod55 and Baza As law enforcement agencies , he also admitted to setting fire to three cars with the letters Z on the body.

The transformer, which a 45-year-old Omsk resident is suspected of setting on fire, caught fire on the night of December 28-29. The fire damaged two cable lines, but the power supply to the tuberculosis dispensary adjacent to the station was not disrupted.

According to Gorod55’s interlocutors, the man was detained on the spot because he was already under covert surveillance. Police and FSB officers suspected an Omsk resident of setting fire to cars with the letters Z on the back. During interrogation, he admitted that he damaged three cars - on October 7 and 12 and November 7. According to Baza , a man named Anton Smolyaninov did this because of his negative attitude towards the war in Ukraine.

Omsk was sent to a temporary detention center. According to information from Gorod55, a case was opened against him for intentional damage to someone else’s property (Article 167 of the Criminal Code). Baza reports that Smolyaninov is also accused of a terrorist attack (Article 205 of the Criminal Code).

In late summer and fall, security forces accused people of setting fire to cars marked with the letters Z and transformers. For example, a couple from Rostov-on-Don is suspected of setting fire to a policeman’s car with the letter Z at the call of a Ukrainian telegram channel, and students from Ufa are accused of setting fire to transformers along railway tracks on instructions from an anonymous person on the Internet.