Russian artist faces up to 10 years in prison: “There are friends in Ukraine, sister in France and a friend in emigration”

Vasileostrovsky District Court of St. Petersburg arrested until May 31 by Artist Alexander Koochileko as part of a criminal case about the public proliferation of obviously false information about the use of the Armed Forces (Sun) of the Russian Federation. The girl replaced the price tags in one of the shops on information about the shelling of Mariupol. Assigning arrest, the judge noted that Mrs. Kochileko had “Friends in Ukraine, sister in France and a friend in emigration,” reports Kommersant.ru.

Petersburg artist, a musician, the former employee of the publishing “Paper” Alexander Koochileko will spend more than one and a half months in the SIZO. This measure of preventive was chosen by Vasileostrovsky District Court in the framework of the criminal case about the public distribution of knowingly false information about the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (part 2 of Art. 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The investigation believes that the girl committed a crime “based on political hatred to the Russian Federation.” For this part of the article, it faces from five to ten years in prison. At the same time on the day of detention on April 11, when Alexander Koochileko took the case of a suspect, it was about the first part of the article, the punishment of which is a maximum of three years of imprisonment.

According to the investigation, on March 31, Alexander Koochileko came to the store “Crossroads” on the small avenue of Vasilyevsky Island and replaced several price tags for leaflets against the “special military operation”. At the same time, the content of leaflets in the case file is not given, said the lawyer of the artist Dmitry Gerasimov. As the Network Freedom Human Rights announced, information about the shelling of the Drama Theater in Mariupol, where civilians were located. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation denies the deposition of air strikes in this area on the day of the destruction of the theater. Wine for the death of peaceful people, the Office imposes on the nationalists who mined the building.

Leaflets noticed the elderly shopper who appealed to the police. After reviewing the records from the store cameras, the staff came to the conclusion that the price tags replaced Mrs. Kochileko.