A St. Petersburg student who threw a Molotov cocktail at the military registration and enlistment office was sentenced to 1.5 years in prison

The Petrodvortsovy District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced local student Viktor Melnikov to one year and six months in a penal colony in the case of attempting to set fire to a building with a “military registration and enlistment office” sign. The United Press Service of the City Courts reports this.

reports In addition, the court ordered Melnikov compulsory outpatient observation and treatment by a psychiatrist at the place where he was serving his sentence.

The young man was found guilty under the article on intentionally damaging someone else’s property for hooligan reasons (Part 2 of Article 167 of the Criminal Code). Apparently, the verdict was handed down on June 5 - a card without the name of the defendant, but with the same article on the court's website.

published According to investigators, on the evening of September 21, 2022, 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 Melnikov fully admitted his guilt, and the case was considered in.

special order On the detention of a student on September 26. 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.

has become known information - Since the beginning of the 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