In St. Petersburg, teenagers were detained for filling military officers’ apartments with polyurethane foam.

The St. Petersburg police opened criminal cases due to the fact that unknown persons filled the entrance doors with polyurethane foam in the apartments where relatives of war correspondents Roman Saponkov and Dmitry Steshin live, the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region reported.

Today, December 18, the attackers were detained in the afternoon, she reported in her Telegram channel official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Irina Volk. They turned out to be two minor local residents. The police plan to establish from whom the teenagers received such a task.

Reports of property damage were received by the police yesterday, December 17, at 1:42 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. In the first case, a resident of a house in the Krasnoselsky district reported that foam was applied around the perimeter of the front door of her apartment. The second message spoke about the door of the inter-apartment hall in a house in the Primorskaya district. The door was filled with polyurethane foam and stained.

The police classified the actions of unknown persons in the Primorsky district as intentional destruction or damage to property (Article 167 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), in Krasnoselsky – as hooliganism (Article 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The police clarified that relatives of journalists Roman Saponkov and Dmitry Steshin now live at these addresses. The press service reported that the search for the attackers will be supervised by the head of the St. Petersburg headquarters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Police Lieutenant General Roman Plugin.

Dmitry Krasheninnikov, St. Petersburg