In Naberezhnye Chelny, the prosecutor’s office began checking after two minors threw snow at the Eternal Flame. About it informs TASS with reference to the press service of the department.
As follows from the message of the prosecutor’s office, this happened at the memorial complex “Motherland”.
The teenagers were detained and taken to the police department for a “preventive conversation”. Administrative protocols were drawn up against their parents for failure to fulfill their responsibilities for the upbringing of minors (Article 5.35 of the Administrative Code).
The prosecutor’s office also intends to check how the bodies of the system for the prevention of neglect and juvenile delinquency work in the city.
Recently, many cases have been started in Russia related to incidents with the Eternal Flame. At the end of October this year, history a homeless person in the Urals, who dried socks and other personal items on the Eternal Flame. To heat it, he threw plastic wreaths into the fire, which melted and ruined the star. The eternal flame had to be repaired. He was charged with the rehabilitation of Nazism. According to the Russian Criminal Code, the “desecration of the symbols of Russia’s military glory” is equated with the rehabilitation of Nazism.
In September of this year, the head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin instructed withdraw the petition to dismiss the case against the teenagers who lit a cigarette from the Eternal Flame in the annexed Sevastopol, and transfer the materials to the main department of the department.
In December 2020 in St. Petersburg detained two thirteen-year-old girls who threw snowballs at the Eternal Flame. They had a preventive conversation with them, and an administrative case was brought up against their parents about the improper performance of their duties related to the upbringing of minors.