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Another case has been opened against a Moscow resident arrested under an article on calls for terrorism.
Another criminal case has been opened against Moscow resident Philip Medvedev, who was arrested because of an audio message with a call to “bomb the FSB building with Iskanders.” The telegram channel “Caution, news” is about this.
reports It is noted that the reason for the new criminal case was a post in the telegram channel of a young man, where there was a call to go to a rally in support of Alexei Navalny on January 23, 2021. According to the telegram channel, this publication said the following: “The Russian Glorious Revolution began the day before yesterday from Vnukovo, and now we, precisely we, have to LIGHT FIRE FROM ITS MATCHES.”
That day, Medvedev went to a rally, he was detained at it, but later released, according to Beware News. Among those detained at the protests on January 23, 2021, which are being conducted by OVD-Info, there is indeed a person named Philip Medvedev. The authors of the telegram channel do not indicate which article of the Criminal Code the young man was charged with in the second criminal case.
lists About the first criminal case against Medvedev under the article on calls for terrorism via the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) in March. According to investigators, Medvedev published a voice message on his Telegram channel for 37 people, in which he proposed striking the FSB building in Moscow, and in its place building an “apart-hotel “Russia””.
it became known At the court hearing as the suppression proceeded, Medvedev admitted that he was the author of the message and called his act stupid and a mistake. According to him, with the post he only expressed an emotional assessment “in connection with the militaristic policy.” His lawyer noted in court that the phrase “bomb with Iskanders” cannot call for real action, since Medvedev’s followers do not have these weapons.
The court rejected the defense's request to place Medvedev under house arrest, pointing out that he twice tried to leave the country after being sentenced in a previous criminal case. The court also considered that the young man was dangerous to society and sent him to a pre-trial detention center.
Before a criminal case was opened against Medvedev, he was sent to a special detention center for 15 days for administrative cases regarding the demonstration of Nazi symbols (Part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Administrative Code). He was first arrested because of his VKontakte avatar with the flag of Vlasov’s Russian Liberation Army. he was arrested because of a tweet with a photo of members of the Ku Klux Klan, which he published to accompany the news of how a girl was robbed in South Africa. Another arrest is related to a post about the fight against Zionism.
three times Second time Earlier, Philip Medvedev was convicted under the article on intentional damage to property (Article 167 of the Criminal Code), his friend told OVD-Info. According to investigators, having seen a car with the letter Z, Medvedev pierced one of the car’s wheels with a knife and then scratched a similar symbol on it. The young man was sentenced to eight months of correctional labor, which had not yet expired.
Information has been added about the content of the post, which became the reason for initiating a second criminal case against Philip Medvedev.
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