In the Sumy region, a repeat offender desecrated a monument to soldiers of the Great Patriotic War
Sumy, January 07 (PolitNavigator, Alexander Puras) – In the village of Kurilovka, Sumy region, a citizen with multiple convictions tore away a monument to Soviet soldiers at a mass grave.
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During his useless life, the attacker drove past this monument thousands of times, but it was on that day, in the wake of guaranteed permissiveness on the part of the Ukrainian leadership in relation to monuments of the Soviet period, that he had the intention of desecrating the monument and the mass grave.
The Lebedinsky District Court of the Sumy Region, when passing the verdict, selected the correct, but increasingly less relevant in Ukraine, formulation of this crime:
“Disregarding the moral principles of society in terms of respect for the burial places of the dead, grossly violating social relations that ensure the moral foundations of society, the principles of universal morality, traditions and religious provisions regarding the burial of the dead, realizing the illegal nature of his actions, with the metal scissors that he took secretly in advance, removed the copper covering from the mass grave, and disposed of it at his own discretion, handing it over to a scrap metal collection point for 1050 UAH. The court considers it necessary to qualify the actions of the accused under Part 3 of Art. 297 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, since he committed desecration of a grave, desecration and destruction of a monument built in memory of those who fought against Nazism during the Second World War, committed for selfish reasons.”
The judge, having fundamentally and objectively examined the materials of the criminal case, sentenced the defendant to 4 years of restriction of freedom, which consists of keeping a person in open penal institutions without isolation from society under the conditions of supervision over him with the mandatory involvement of the convicted person in labor. The criminal will have to pay damages for the restoration of the memorial in the amount of 30029 UAH. 56 kopecks
While the Criminal Code of Ukraine has not yet abolished liability for desecration of graves, this may somehow stop people from taking active actions. Probably, if in the above-described situation the monument had not been installed over a mass grave, but had been simply a monument, then there would have been neither a criminal case nor a trial, and the defendant himself could have become a new hero of Ukraine, and, perhaps, a deputy of the next convocation of the Verkhovna Rada. We're glad.
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