In Volgograd, a case was opened against a Ural resident who lit a cigarette from the Eternal Flame for desecration of graves

In Volgograd, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against a resident of the Sverdlovsk region who lit a cigarette from the Eternal Flame. The press service of the Volgograd Regional Investigative Committee reported this.

reports that a 33-year-old Ural resident was charged with the desecration of graves (Part 1 of Article 244 of the Criminal Code). According to investigators, he lit a cigarette from the Eternal Flame at the “Mass grave of the defenders of Red Tsaritsyn and the soldiers of the 62nd and 64th Armies who died in the defense of Stalingrad.”

• Security forces often initiate criminal cases because of dancing, various photographs at monuments of military glory and other actions that do not pose a public danger. In most cases, the Investigative Committee qualifies them under the article on the rehabilitation of Nazism (Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code). According to the SOVA Information and Analytical Center, many cases under Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code are initiated unlawfully and should be qualified under other articles of the Criminal Code or resolved within the framework of civil rather than criminal proceedings. opinion - It is known that criminal cases of lighting a cigarette from the Eternal Flame have been initiated before. So, in September 2022, it became known that a resident of Krasnogorsk was being investigated because of a similar incident in Istra. In Anapa, the case stems from a video with two underage girls, one of whom lit a cigarette from the Eternal Flame. In Kurgan, a local resident is involved in the case, who climbed onto the Obelisk of Victory to also light a cigarette from the Eternal Flame. started excited became The text of the news has been changed.