Police in Daugavpils have detained two men for drawing symbols praising Russian military aggression on windows, road signs, and several other objects, police said November 27.
On November 23, police received information that “V” and “Z”, symbols of military aggression, had been painted on several objects in Daugavpils’ Grīva residential area – a window, a mailbox, an electricity switchboard, three trees, a road sign, a road carriageway, a fence, a garage gate, an electricity pole, and a car door.
On November 25 this year, law enforcement officers arrested two men born in 1995 and 1987, who had previously been in police custody for committing other criminal offenses.
In connection with this event, criminal proceedings have been initiated for public glorification, denial, justification, or gross disparagement of genocide, crime against humanity, crime against peace or war crime, including genocide, crime against humanity, crime against peace or war crime committed by the USSR or Nazi Germany against the Republic of Latvia and its inhabitants.
For such a crime, the law provides for a penalty of deprivation of liberty for a term not exceeding five years or temporary deprivation of liberty, or probation supervision, or community service, or a fine.
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