Members of a post-punk band accused of setting fire to the administration of the city of Bakal were transferred to another pre-trial detention center

The defendants in the case of arson of the administration of the city of Bakala in the Chelyabinsk region, Alexey Nuriev and Roman Nasryev, were transferred from pre-trial detention center-7 to Chelyabinsk pre-trial detention center-1. This is reported by the Solidarity Zone project.

Members of the Bakal post-punk group Room32 Nuriev and Nasryev are charged with committing a terrorist act by a group of persons by prior conspiracy (clause “a”, part 2 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code) and undergoing training for the purpose of carrying out terrorist activities (Article 205.3 of the Criminal Code).

According to investigators, on the night of October 11, 2022, they broke a window on the first floor of the city administration building and threw two Molotov cocktails there. The fire was extinguished by a watchman before firefighters arrived. The musicians were detained on the same day.

On October 13, 2022, the Central District Court of Chelyabinsk sent them to a pre-trial detention center for two months. Initially, Nuriev and Nasryev were charged with the intentional destruction and damage of property (Article 167 of the Criminal Code), but later the case was reclassified as the commission of a terrorist act by a group of persons by prior conspiracy. In November of the same year, a second criminal case was opened against them - under the article on training in terrorist activities.

The press service of the FSB Directorate for the region noted that the detainees “are members of several dozen left- and right-wing radical Internet communities, including pro-Ukrainian nationalist ones.”

Address for letters to pre-trial detention center-1: 456 006, Chelyabinsk, st. Rossiyskaya, 53, pre-trial detention center-1, Roman Raifovich Nasryev, born in 1995, Alexey Talgatovich Nuriev, born in 1985.

• Since the beginning of the full-scale war with Ukraine, military registration and enlistment offices and administrative buildings have been set on fire in various Russian cities. After the announcement of the “partial” mobilization, such arson became more frequent—several dozen cases of arson of military registration and enlistment offices are known . 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 guide to the “anti-war case”. OVD-Info suggests that at least some of these actions were a response to military aggression from Russia.