The Central District Military Court in Yekaterinburg received two cases in which the defendants are accused of treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code), participation in a terrorist community (Part 2 of Article 205.4 of the Criminal Code) and committing a terrorist attack by a group of persons (clause “a” of Part 2 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code). attention to cards . the case drew Mediazona
The court registered the materials on both cases on June 13. The next day, according to one of them, a meeting was scheduled for June 20 to extend the preventive measure, and according to the second, a meeting on the merits was scheduled for June 21. The case files for both cases do not list the names of the accused. However, it is known that several Perm neo-Nazis are being prosecuted under such charges.
Last December, were arrested Mikhail Sokolov and Alexey Gashev in Perm. According to the FSB, they “on instructions from the SBU, prepared to carry out terrorist attacks and sabotage” in Perm and helped Ukraine with “destabilizing the socio-political situation in the region.” The agency claims that 23-year-old neo-Nazi Dmitry Strelkov, who was on the wanted list, helped recruit them.
According to the Nakanune publication, the reason for the criminal cases was that on the night of June 24, Perm residents threw several Molotov cocktails at the administrative building, which caused a window to break and part of the facade to be charred. As a result, Sokolov and Gashev were detained while trying to leave the Perm region, and then sent to a pre-trial detention center.