A teenager from Slutsk “mined” the school and the hospital – he will face severe punishment

A teenager from Slutsk sent a false message to the chatbot of the Ministry of Internal Affairs about the mining of a school and a hospital, a criminal case was opened. This was reported in the police department, writes sb.by.

A 14-year-old resident of Slutsk sent a false message via the chatbot of the Ministry of Internal Affairs “We are always near!” about the mining of a hospital in Soligorsk and a school in Slutsk. In the correspondence, he turned to threats and ransom demands. The teenager expected anonymity. He used a purchased Telegram account to send messages, but that didn’t help. Employees of the Department for combating cybercrime of the Minsk region quickly established the identity of the pseudominer. About his actions, the young man even told a friend in the messenger, boasting of “resourcefulness”, – the head of the Criminal Code of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Pavel Strok gave details. Investigators opened a criminal case for knowingly false report of danger.

The police added:

Parents, explain to children that knowingly false message about danger is not an innocent prank, but a criminal act, for which punishment is provided up to imprisonment! Responsibility under this article comes from the age of 14, and the guilty party is obliged to reimburse the amount spent on the work of emergency services. Teenagers sent 22 false reports of explosions and murders in six months

In Rogachev, the court sentenced a man for false reporting of an explosion