An 18-year-old Perm student accused in the case of the failed arson of a military registration and enlistment office was added to the “list of extremists and terrorists”

18-year-old Perm college student Kirill Zamaleev, who is in a pre-trial detention center in connection with the failed arson of a military registration and enlistment office, was added to the “list of extremists and terrorists” maintained by Rosfinmonitoring. This was brought to attention by a telegram channel that monitors changes in the registry.

This list includes those involved in cases related to extremism and terrorism, and their accounts are blocked. previously Zamaleev was charged with preparing for a terrorist attack (Part 1 of Article 30 of the Criminal Code, Part 1 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code), and in September the court sent him under arrest.

According to the Perm department of the FSB, after the start of the war in Ukraine, the student “became carried away by Internet resources opposed to the Russian authorities,” and in August 2023, the special service claims, a man named Maxim suggested that he “set fire and blow up the premises of the military registration and enlistment office of the Industrial and Dzerzhinsky districts of Perm.”

According to the security forces, before September 12, Zamaleev “went on reconnaissance” to the military registration and enlistment office building, bought charcoal and sodium nitrate, made “something similar to a firecracker” based on descriptions found on the Internet, and the next day “tested” it in a vacant lot near the car market. There was no explosion because the match did not ignite. fast food restaurant . On the evening of September 13, Zamaleev was detained at the Rostic's

The FSB noted that the “recruiter” named Maxim did not have time to transfer $400 to the student, since the arson, which, according to security forces, was planned on the night of September 15, did not take place.

Lawyer Valery Lazarev, in his appeal against the arrest, indicated that during his arrest, security forces threatened Zamaleev that they would use a stun gun or cut off his finger to unlock his phone. “I am an absolutely adequate citizen. I’m ready to cooperate with the investigation, I’m not hiding anything,” Zamaleev himself said via video link from the pre-trial detention center, and then, as RBC writes, he said: “Lord, help me.”

As Mediazona noted, was also added 19-year-old resident of Yaroslavl Valeria Zotova, convicted in the case of a failed terrorist attack, to the “list of extremists and terrorists.” According to investigators, she was going to set fire to the administration of the village of Karabikha.

Before the arrest, the girl wrote to her friend, who turned out to be an FSB agent with the call sign “Geran”, that she only wanted to fake arson. At the end of June, Zotova was sentenced to six years in prison (Part 3 of Article 30 of the Criminal Code, Part 1 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code).