In Rostov-on-Don, a young married couple was detained for setting fire to a car with the Z symbol applied in support of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine. This was reported in the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the region.
“Realizing operational information, employees of the Center for Combating Extremism of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Rostov Region, in cooperation with colleagues from the Main Directorate of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, identified and detained a group of people suspected of participating in a planned action to set fire to a car belonging to an employee of the internal affairs bodies,” the report says. message on the site departments.
It is noted that the attackers for several days watched the parking lot near the administrative building of the internal affairs bodies. In the daytime, they doused the engine compartment of the car with a combustible mixture and set it on fire, after which they fled the scene.
At the same time, there were no witnesses to the moment of arson. In addition, surveillance cameras did not record intruders.
The police opened a criminal case on the grounds of a crime under part 2 of article 167 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Intentional destruction or damage to property”.
Law enforcement officers managed to identify the suspects in the arson. They were 24-year-old and 22-year-old residents of Rostov-on-Don. After the deed, the couple left the city, intending to evade responsibility, but a few days later the attackers returned and began to hide in the forest, where they were detained.
The police added that at the place of detention, a cache was found with documents and mobile communications, as well as a revolver-type pistol and cartridges for it, which are currently being sent for examination.
According to the detainees, they received a reward in the form of a cryptocurrency worth 15,000 rubles for the arson. The proposal was made in a group of the network, which was controlled from the territory of Ukraine by adherents of neo-Nazi ideology.
The young couple filmed the moment of arson on video, in order to send it to customers as a report and receive the promised fee.
The police found that the detainees were preparing to commit another crime related to the destruction of police vehicles or the National Guard.
With regard to the detainees, a measure of restraint in the form of detention was chosen.
Earlier, on July 12, it was reported that suspects in the attack on a Russian soldier in Sudak were detained in Crimea for the letter Z on clothes. The attack took place the day before on the Sudak embankment, where the military was undergoing treatment in one of the sanatoriums. The attackers shouted pro-Ukrainian slogans.
The letters Z and V have become symbols of a special operation to protect the inhabitants of Donbass, the beginning of which Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on February 24. Moscow explained that the tasks of the special operation included the demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine.
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