A Russian court this Friday, December 24, sentenced a young man to 4 years in prison for “insulting the memory” of a veteran of the Second World War, the teenager having urinated on a portrait of a veteran.
Matveï Youferov, 19, was found guilty of violating Russian law repressing “Nazism rehabilitation”, according to a statement posted on Telegram by the Moscow prosecutor’s office where the trial took place.
The young man who “publicly insulted the memory of the defenders of the Fatherland and humiliated the dignity of a veteran”, will have to serve his sentence in a penal colony, according to the same source.
The prosecution believes that Matveï Youferov “vandalized” a memorial to a veteran of the Second World War in the east of Moscow.
According to the Mediazona news site, Matvei Yuferov urinated on the portrait decorating the memorial. He admitted the facts at the trial, claiming that he was drunk and said he regretted his act.
The prosecutor had requested five years in prison, the maximum penalty for this type of offense.