The 19-year-old male was found to have ‘desecrated’ a portrait of a war veteran, and was deemed guilty under a strict new law introduced in March this year following a similar case
Summary
- A teenager has been sentenced to four years in prison after being seen urinating on a World War Two memorial.
- 19-year-old Matvey Yuferov actually recorded himself urinating on a portrait of a World War Two veteran on November 25, in the Moscow district of Izmailovo, and uploaded the footage online.
- A court in Moscow found the Russian teen guilty yesterday after he “desecrated” the memorial and showcased his “criminal actions”.
- Moscow City Court made the ruling under Russia’s law against “rehabilitation of Nazism” after a short trial that did not even last a month.
- Russian legislators then passed a law which prohibited insulting the country’s World War Two veterans.