Law enforcement identified two possible violators and arrested them on April 9. The detainees had no prior convictions.
In Latvia, the police detained two citizens who tore down the Ukrainian flag from one of the buildings in Riga. Delfi reported it.
It is known that on April 5, the police received a call from an eyewitness that a masked man was destroying the Ukrainian flag hanging from a building on Barona Street, and another man was filming it. After the incident, the two immediately left the scene of the incident; The Riga Eastern State Police Department started an investigation into this fact.
Footage published on social networks shows the man smashing the flagpole while holding what appears to be a professional walkie-talkie.
Law enforcement identified two possible violators and arrested them on April 9. The detainees had no prior convictions.
During the searches of the houses of the detainees, a mask was found, which was probably used in the commission of the crime, licenses, as well as various things “related to the glorification of the communist regime and Russia.”
A criminal case is opened for actions aimed at inciting national, ethnic, racial or religious hatred, as well as for intentionally destroying or damaging other people’s property. On April 11, the court will consider the arrest of the suspects.
We remind you that in the center of the capital of Latvia, Riga, a man destroyed the flag of Ukraine, the police began to investigate the incident.
We remind you that earlier in the Lviv region, two women and a man brought down and wanted to burn the flag of Ukraine. And in the Kharkov region, an unknown man stole a flag from the grave of a dead defender of Ukraine.
Source: korrespondent
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