The Pechersky District Court of Kyiv sentenced a man who tried to set fire to the Office of the Ombudsman and the Cassation Criminal Court to 5 years in prison. He threw a Molotov cocktail at the building of the Office of the Ombudsman, and then set fire to the door of the court.
The Kyiv City Prosecutorʼs Office writes about this in its Telegram channel.
"The verdict of the Pechersky District Court of Kyiv sentenced the man to 5 years of imprisonment. The court also satisfied the civil claims of state institutions in the amount of almost 100,000 hryvnias, which are subject to recovery from the accused," the message reads.
The convict is a 51-year-old native of Kherson oblast. Forensic psychiatric examination found the man sane.
- On August 26, 2021, in the center of the capital, on Instytutska Street, an unknown man threw a Molotov cocktail at the office of the Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights. At that time, Lyudmila Denisova was the ombudsman. The man also tried to set fire to the entrance to the Supreme Court building.
- A few days later, the court chose a preventive measure for him — detention. Prosecutors specified that the manʼs motive was dissatisfaction with the slow way in which the state authorities considered his appeal.