ALLEGED SUSPECTS DETAINED IN STAVROPOL TERRITORY FOR DESECRATING ARMENIAN GRAVES
PanARMENIAN.Net
22.05.2007 13:51 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ For about 40 Armenian graves have been desecrated
in Krasnokumsk village of Georgievsk district, Stavropol Territory
in the night of May 21.
The graves were covered with paints and swastika signs, the
Police Department of Stavropol Territory reported. The crime has
characteristics of Article 244 of the Russian Penal Code (outrage
upon bodies of dead and their burial places).
Four suspects have been detained for participating in this crime: an
18-year-old resident of Georgievsk and his three associates. The low
enforcement bodies have already established their identities. Currently
they give testimonies, IA Regnum reports.
This is not the first similar crime committed in Stavropol
Territory. More than 50 graves, including Armenian were desecrated
by vandals in a cemetery near Georgievsk December 17, 2005. 14 more
Armenian graves suffered in the cemetery of a village in Nadezhda
Shpakovskaya district December 6, 2005. Then malefactors poured acid
over marble stones, broke grave plates and put out eyes on photos
of dead.