SUSPECT DETAINED OVER ATTACK ON ARMENIAN CULTURE MUSEUM
ITAR-TASS News Agency
August 9, 2006 Wednesday 04:34 AM EST
A person suspected of desecrating the Armenian culture museum in
Rostov-on-Don is detained, a police source told Itar-Tass on Wednesday.
The suspect is a 23-year-old local resident who was previously
convicted of robbery. The person, as he confesses, belongs to a group
of skinheads.
The attack on the museum was committed on the night to July 31 this
year. The attackers broke three windows and wrote extremist slogans
on the entrance door and on the asphalt before the door.
An official investigation was launched in connection with the
intentional property damaging.
The investigation and search for accomplices are continuing, the
police source said.