The criminal case against wield the cemetery "Ekimań" on the outskirts of Połacak vandals submitted to the court, said the prosecutor of the Prosecutor's Office of Viciebsk region to oversee the implementation of the legislation on the management of the Investigative Committee of the Viciebsk region Vasily Yakovlev.

The criminal case against the three individuals referred to the Court of Połacak and Połacak region. Figurants (two of whom are minors born in 1999) are charged with desecration of graves (st.347 Part 1 of the Criminal Code), it is also charged with intentional destruction or damage to property on a large scale (part 3 st.218 Criminal Code). Vandals, all three residents of Połacak, damaged 67 graves (destroyed monuments, pedestals, etc..), The total damage amounted to more than Br276,8 million. For these crimes can be deprived of liberty for a term of 3 to 12 years.

One of the destroyers graves accused of knowingly engaging minors in the commission of a crime (Article 172 Part 3 of the Criminal Code provides for a sanction from 5 to 8 years of imprisonment).

"We are talking about additional education educator born in 1990, who led a circle on the military history of the Palace of Children and Youth in Navapołacak. It was he after school bought beer and drank it together with two of his 16-year-old circle members in the cemetery, and then was the first to destroy the graves. Teens have followed the example of his "mentor" and all together smashing the graves of his arms and legs. At the teacher found a lighter, and another entertainment was burning wreaths, crosses and other objects of the funeral rite. All this is to administer the cemetery at night for a few hours. In this case parents of minors did not know where their children are. With timely treatment of attention to the lack of night teen crime would be to pre-empt "– said Vasily Yakovlev.

As previously reported, an act of vandalism at the cemetery was carried out at night from 6 to 7 November 2015.

Alena Tikhonova, BELTA