A 25-year-old man will go on trial in Kyiv. He is suspected of setting fire to a post office in the Desnyanskyi district of the city.
This was reported by the press service of the Main Directorate of the National Police of Kyiv.
It is noted that in December last year, the Desnyanskyi Police Department received a report of a fire at a post office on Lisov Avenue. Investigators determined that the fire was caused by deliberate arson.
Later, the capital's detectives detained a 25-year-old man from Zhytomyr who had come to Kyiv to work. He worked as a car mechanic at a local auto repair shop.
The police found out that the day before, the detainee's friend had met a girl on the Internet and was going to meet her. Soon, he received a call from a law enforcement officer who allegedly told him that his new acquaintance worked for an aggressor country and that he would now face trouble for communicating with her.
“To prevent this from happening, the pseudo-law enforcement officer insisted on setting fire to the post office, where the girl's accomplice supposedly works. The man agreed and asked his 25-year-old friend to help him. Upon arrival at the scene, the latter doused the front door of the post office with a flammable mixture and set it on fire,” the report says.
Investigators informed the defendant of suspicion under Part 2 of Article 194 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine – intentional damage to property by arson. Currently, law enforcement officers have completed the investigation and sent charges to the court. The sanction of the incriminated article provides for up to ten years in prison.
It was previously reported that law enforcement officers reported suspicions to a 21-year-old Kyiv resident who set fire to a Ukrposhta post office. According to the case materials, a pseudo-SBU employee gave the guy a task over the phone to watch one of the Ukrposhta branches and then set fire to the post office near it. The guy believed that in this way he was helping to expose a traitor working at this post office.