In St. Petersburg, a 17-year-old schoolboy was sentenced for setting fire to military registration and enlistment offices. According to the portal 78.ru, a student of the gymnasium, Yegor Balazeikin, appeared in court.
He was found guilty of two attempts to set fire to military registration and enlistment offices, which were classified as attempted terrorist attacks. The teenager was detained in February 2023 when he tried to set fire to a military registration and enlistment office in the Leningrad region. It turned out that this was his second attempt at arson.
“Yes, I threw the bottle, but I don’t agree with the stated goals,” Balazeikin said during the hearing. He added that he has no one to justify himself to. “I justify myself to my soul, but my conscience judges me,” said the schoolboy.
Balazeikin’s lawyers insisted on the young man’s full acquittal, but the 1st Western District Military Court sentenced the schoolboy to 6 years in prison. After the verdict was pronounced, the schoolboy’s mother told reporters that she did not agree with it and intended to appeal it, TASS reports.
RBC notes that Balazeikin threw a Molotov cocktail at the building of the military commissariat of the Kirov district of the Leningrad region. At the same time, earlier a student tried to throw a container of fuel into a military registration and enlistment office located next to the Novocherkasskaya metro station in St. Petersburg. However, in both the first and second cases the liquid did not ignite.
Source: Rosbalt
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