The Soviet District Court of Volgograd began considering a criminal case against 30-year-old Denis Serdyuk, accused of setting fire to the district military commissariat in the regional center. According to the prosecution, in May last year, the man threw a Molotov cocktail through the window of the military registration and enlistment office and disappeared. He was later detained by the police. Whether Volgograd admits guilt is unknown. His defense does not comment on the case.
In the Soviet District Court of Volgograd, a criminal case began against a resident of the regional center, 30-year-old Denis Serdyuk. He is accused of hooliganism committed with the use of weapons or objects used as weapons (part 2 of article 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), and deliberate destruction or damage to property, committed out of hooligan motives (part 2 of article 167 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
The criminal case was received by the district court on November 11, 2022, but the hearings were postponed several times. According to the prosecution, on the night of May 15 last year, Denis Serdyuk made several Molotov cocktails and threw them through the window into the back room of the military commissariat for the Soviet, Voroshilov and Kirov regions on Krivorozhskaya Street.
The fire area, according to the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the Volgograd region, amounted to 16 square meters. m. Law enforcement agencies did not report the loss of any significant documents.
At the scene, police found a glass Molotov cocktail and an empty plastic bottle, which was believed to have contained a combustible substance. Denis Serdyuk himself fled the scene, but was soon detained by law enforcement officers.
The decision to take Denis Serdyuk into custody was taken by the Central District Court of Volgograd on May 26, 2022, later the preventive measure was extended.
It is known from social networks that Denis Serdyuk served in the airborne troops in Novorossiysk from 2011 to 2012, was engaged in advertising activities for some time, and is raising a minor son.
Whether Denis Serdyuk pleads guilty to the crimes imputed to him is unknown, his lawyer Alexei Bogachev refrained from commenting. If the Volgograd citizen’s guilt is proven, he faces up to seven years in prison.
Recently, in the Volgograd region, there have been two more arsons of government buildings. On the night of September 26, Mikhail Filatov, a 35-year-old blogger from Uryupinsk, drove up in a domestic car to the building of the military commissariat of the Uryupinsk and Novonikolaevsky districts. Video footage from surveillance cameras that appeared on Telegram channels shows how he parked his car close to the doors of the military registration and enlistment office and set it on fire. And then he threw Molotov cocktails at the building.
A little earlier, on September 23, the building of the city administration was set on fire in Kamyshin, Volgograd region. Local authorities reported that also early in the morning, unknown people threw a Molotov cocktail. “As a result, the building suffered minor damage,” the Kamyshin administration noted. 37-year-old Pavel Magalyas was detained on suspicion of arson. By decision of the Central District Court of Volgograd, he was arrested.
Criminal cases have been initiated on the intentional destruction or damage to property committed by arson. There is no information about them in the files of district courts yet, law enforcement agencies have not reported the completion of investigations.
