Case on sabotage of Novosibirsk teenagers resembles similar cases in Southern Russia

Parents of the teenagers detained in Novosibirsk for setting fire to relay cabinets, a cell phone station, and an SU-24 aircraft believe that the case has been falsified. Investigators instituted similar cases in Southern Russia, although the cases contain signs of provocations from law enforcers, and the person who ordered the crimes remains unidentified, a lawyer notes.

The “Caucasian Knot” has reported that after the start of the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine, military registration and enlistment offices and relay cabinets on the railway were repeatedly set on fire in Southern Russia. Investigators classified those incidents as sabotage. In particular, a court sentenced Ilya Mironichev, a 19-year-old resident of Krasnodar, to 11.5 years of imprisonment for sabotage on the railway.

The wording that “unidentified persons” force teenagers to film arson attacks and send them to the “customer” suggests that investigators have found a simple way to prove the crimes being committed, claims Roman Melnichenko, Candidate of Legal Sciences.

Residents of Novosibirsk, whose children were accused of sabotage, have decided to conduct their own investigation after the incidents happened to their children, who denied the fact of sabotage, but admitted the fact of damage to other people’s property, for which they are ready to take responsibility.

“We’ve realized that the case against our children is being fabricated, and we’ve started to look for similar cases. We have read a number of articles, from which it turned out that similar cases, like carbon copies, were instituted in the Krasnodar Territory,” claimed Veronika Usik, a mother of one of the defendants.

According to the parents’ version, investigators fabricate the cases in order to advance their careers.

The teenagers’ parents claim that their children are being subjected to physical and psychological pressure to confess guilt. They believe that the investigators themselves are engaged in provoking crimes on social networks and are looking for children, offering them to earn money.