Bastrykin instructed to investigate the desecration of a Soviet monument in Berlin

The head of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin instructed to conduct an investigation after the desecration of the memorial to Soviet soldiers in Berlin, the press service of the department reported.

“Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation A.I. Bastrykin instructed the Main Investigation Department of the Russian Investigative Committee to establish all the circumstances of the desecration of the memorial as part of the investigation of the criminal case, and also to take all necessary measures to identify the perpetrators of the incident.

This is a memorial erected in honor of the fallen soldiers of the Soviet Union in the battle for Berlin in 1945. The monument is located in Treptow Park in Berlin. According to the German portal T-online, the attackers applied several red inscriptions to the monument, including the letter Z and a swastika. The inscriptions were discovered by the park security service, now the police are guarding the monument.

On April 3, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case after unknown persons desecrated a monument to Soviet and Polish tankers in the Polish city of Gdansk. As the newspaper Zawse Pomorze wrote, the day before a group of people wrapped a T-34 tank on Pobeda Avenue in Gdansk with black film. The initiator of the action was the president of the Foundation for Assistance to Activists “Poland Unites Us”, the wife of MP Kacper Plazhinsky, Natalia Nitek-Plazhinskaya. According to her, this monument "perpetuates the crime against the inhabitants of Gdansk."