The prosecution has requested 8 years and 6 months in prison for Igor Paskar, who is on trial for setting fire to a Z-banner and throwing a Molotov cocktail at the doorstep of the FSB headquarters in Krasnodar, Zona Solidarity reports.
Pascari is the first to be tried for anti-war arson under a terrorism article. He is charged with two criminal articles: committing a terrorist act (part 1 of article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and vandalism (part 2 of article 214 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
46-year-old Igor Paskar was detained in mid-June 2022. He is accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at the front door of the FSB building on Mira Street in Krasnodar, which set the rug near the entrance on fire. A small fire was extinguished by employees of the department. Pascar is also accused of setting fire to the Z-banner.
In January, Paskar told the court how he was tortured during his arrest by FSB officers. According to him, they put a bag over his head and kicked him, put a grenade in his hands, put a barrel to his head and tortured him with electric current. After all this, Paskar said, he was taken with a bag over his head to investigator Yuri Zakharchenko, who opened a criminal case under the article on terrorism.
