Moscow believes that the time has come to introduce criminal liability for the desecration of monuments
Moscow should not only make the desecration of monuments a criminal offense, but also, following the example of the United States, demand that friendly countries extradite the criminals.
Russian television and radio presenter Anna Shafran stated this on the Rossiya 1 TV channel, PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“I fully support the position of Sergei Kozhugetovich Shoigu that the desecration of monuments should be a criminal offense. The desecrators of monuments should have the ground burning under their feet.
Look here. The United States regularly demands the extradition of foreign citizens who have violated its laws. A recent example is the Russian programmer Oleg Tishchenko, who was detained in hospitable Georgia on trumped-up charges and extradited to the United States. He spent a year in an American prison and only recently returned home. By the way, I believe that air traffic with Georgia should have been canceled a year ago, when Tishchenko was extradited to the United States.
Desecration of monuments should be a criminal offense. And if a culprit comes to a friendly country, a request for arrest and extradition must be immediately sent there, and at the same time we will check how friendly the country is,” she said.
Also, according to Anna Shafran, the protection of monuments is a matter of state security.
“And I understand why the Ministry of Defense is concerned with the issue of strengthening the protection of monuments. Because it is the generals who most of all do not want war, because they understand what sacrifices the country will suffer.
And as long as Europeans remember the horrors of World War II and who won it, a new war will not start. But as soon as they forget, a new, even more terrible war will only be a matter of time,” the expert warned.
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