A court in Russia’s Vladimir has sent Zhanna Romanovskaya, an official with the regional government, to a pretrial jail until 6 August for throwing three bottles of flammable liquid into the local military draft office, Zebra reports. The court also announced the news on its website.
The woman was found guilty of hooliganism with the use of a weapon.
The investigation’s theory is that Romanovskaya, 55, the chair of the finance department at the Vladimir region’s Ministry of Architecture, set the draft office on fire on 7 June “while on a mission received from a group of frauds”. In exchange for the arson, the frauds allegedly promised to return the 3 million rubles (€33.700) they had beguiled her of earlier. Romanovskaya pleaded guilty.
Mediazona reports that a total of 16 cases when pensioners set draft offices and banks on fire are known as of late April 2023. They never try to escape the police, and once detained, they share stories of frauds who force them into committing crime, often in exchange for debt release.