The court sentenced a 21-year-old resident of Vladivostok to seven years in prison in the case of setting fire to a military enlistment office on the night of June 8.
He was found guilty of the attack. The first two years he will serve in prison, the rest of the term – in a strict regime colony.
“According to the investigation, the convict corresponded in a messenger with the customer, who promised him a cash reward of 100 thousand rubles in the event of the complete destruction of the building. Another obligatory condition of the customer was the provision of a video recording of the destruction of the object. At the court session, the convict admitted his guilt, ”the website of the First Eastern District Military Court reports .
After mobilization was announced in Russia in September, a wave of arson attacks on military registration and enlistment offices swept the country. Minors are also detained on suspicion of such attacks (for example, on March 1, a 16-year-old schoolboy was detained on suspicion of attempting to set fire to a military registration and enlistment office in Kirovsk, Leningrad Region).
At first, cases of arson were initiated under articles of hooliganism or damage to property, but later the charges began to be reclassified as terrorism. For example, in January, a military court in Yekaterinburg sentenced a Russian citizen to 12 years in prison for setting fire to a military enlistment office in Nizhnevartovsk.