The woman who poured paint over the monument to intelligence officer Richard Sorge in Vladivostok changed the article from vandalism to a more serious one – about the destruction or damage to cultural heritage sites, informed RIA Novosti source in law enforcement.
The pedestal of the monument to Sorge near the Firsova stop was doused with red paint on the eve of Victory Day. This moment hit on video, but in itself it is of poor quality. The monument has been cleared. A 39-year-old resident of Vladivostok was detained on suspicion of vandalism. woman already sent in a pre-trial detention center, and her two children in an orphanage.
According to a RIA Novosti source, the case was reclassified from Article 214 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Vandalism” to Article 243 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Destruction or damage to cultural heritage sites (monuments of history and culture) of the peoples of the Russian Federation.”
“This is already a heavier composition,” the agency’s source said, adding that at first the article was “of a slight severity, it became of medium severity,” without specifying the reason. The maximum sanction under article 243 is six years’ imprisonment, while the vandalism article provided for up to three years’ imprisonment.
According to the source, the woman did not expect to be found. “She was shocked that she was found so quickly,” the source said, adding that the woman was detained at home. The source added that the figurant chose “the first monument she came across, she doesn’t know who Sorge is at all.”
Monument to the Soviet intelligence officer, Hero of the Soviet Union Richard Sorge opened in Vladivostok on November 7, 2019. It was installed in the area of Prospect of the 100th Anniversary of Vladivostok, 53 in the square of the same name. The author of the sculpture is Ilya Topchy.