The Soviet District Court of Volgograd found Denis Serdyuk guilty of setting fire to a military enlistment office in mid-May last year and sentenced him to four years in prison. It is reported by RBC with reference to the press service of the courts of the Volgograd region.
Serdyuk was charged under Part 2 of Art. 167 (destruction of property by arson) and part 2 of Art. 213 of the Criminal Code (hooliganism). According to the court, on the night of May 14-15, 2022, he set fire to improvised incendiary devices and threw them through the window into the utility room of the military registration and enlistment office in the Sovetsky district of Volgograd, after which he disappeared, but was later detained.
Serdyuk admitted his guilt in full and repented of his deed.
On May 15, the Volgograd edition Volgograd Online reported a fire in the building of the military registration and enlistment office for the Sovetsky District. The Telegram channel Baza wrote that the police found the remains of a Molotov cocktail in the premises. However, the military registration and enlistment office itself denied reports of arson, saying that it was an exercise.
At the end of January, the Central District Military Court issued a verdict in the case of the arson of a military registration and enlistment office in Nizhnevartovsk in May, which was qualified as a terrorist attack. One of the defendants, Vladislav Borisenko, was sentenced to 12 years in a strict regime colony and fined 6,000 rubles. The defense party appealed the verdict.
Initially, the defendants in the case, like Serdyuk, were accused under Art. 213 (hooliganism) and part 2 of Art. 167 (deliberate destruction of another’s property by arson), but later the investigation changed the qualification to paragraph “a” part 2 of Art. 205 of the Criminal Code (a terrorist act committed by prior agreement or by an organized group).
The defendants pleaded guilty, but disagreed with the qualification of their actions as a terrorist act. They said that they committed the crime for financial gain, and not for the purpose of “destabilizing the authorities.”
Source: Rosbalt
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