Azerbaijani Native Detained in St. Petersburg for Arson

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In St. Petersburg, a 14-year-old native of Azerbaijan was detained on suspicion of setting fire to a former police station on orders from unknown persons.

According to the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for St. Petersburg, the fire occurred near house 212 on Moskovsky Prospekt.

According to preliminary data, the fire broke out in a block container where a police picket had previously been located. A schoolboy who received citizenship in a simplified manner in 2017 was detained on the heels of the incident, Fontanka reported on August 3.

The young man told the police that he met a girl in a messenger who asked him to share the geolocation of popular places in the city, explaining that she had recently moved and did not know the city well. However, after receiving the data, she deleted the correspondence and blocked the young man. After that, an unknown person contacted him and told him that the information he had provided would be used for criminal purposes. And in order to avoid negative consequences, the young man had to set fire to the former police picket on Moskovsky Prospekt. For this, he was also promised 250 thousand rubles.

After that, the young man made an incendiary mixture in a glass bottle and committed arson; he did not receive the money. A criminal case of terrorism has been opened on the fact of arson.

The police picket has not been functioning for more than five years, its roof caught fire. The moment of arson was recorded by street cameras. The fire was extinguished by a public toilet worker, and no serious consequences were reported.

Earlier, "Kavkazsky Uzel" wrote that at the end of July in Kuban, three men were detained, who are suspected of setting fire to relay cabinets on the railway and preparing to set fire to cellular communication equipment.