Man who desecrated military graves detained in Vinnytsia region

In Vinnytsia region, law enforcement officers detained a man who had desecrated the graves of Ukrainian soldiers. This was reported by the Main Department of the National Police in Vinnytsia region, UNN reports. 

Details

According to Maksym Bodniuk, head of police station No. 3, on December 18, police received a report from a resident of the Orativ community that in the village of Novozhyvotiv, at the cemetery on the graves of four defenders, unknown persons had damaged photo frames and taken their photos.

Law enforcement officers immediately began to establish the circumstances of the crime. Within a few hours, the operatives tracked down witnesses who had seen the man involved in the offense. Soon after, the police located the offender and detained him in a neighboring village where he lives.

The investigators conducted all necessary procedural actions at the crime scene and with the offender. The issue of serving a notice of suspicion to the offender is currently being decided. Investigators of the Police Department No. 3 of the Vinnytsia District Department are conducting a pre-trial investigation of criminal proceedings on the grounds of a crime under Part 2 of Art. 297 (Desecration of a grave, other burial place or the body of the deceased) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The sanction of the article provides for up to 5 years in prison

Addendum

It turned out  that the 35-year-old detainee had already been prosecuted for theft. On the morning of December 18, he said, while intoxicated, he entered the cemetery, broke the frames on the graves, took the photos, and then threw them away.

Recall

In Kyiv, police officers exposed a group of minors who were stealing from the graves of fallen heroes. The boys and girls, born in 2010 and 2011, did not hesitate to take flags, bracelets, chevrons, patches, flowers, and other memorabilia from the graves.