In Minsk, the lodger stole the property of a neighbor and set fire to the room

A criminal case was sent to the court against a 37-year-old previously unconvicted resident of Molodechnensky district, who committed theft and intentionally destroyed and damaged other people's property in a generally dangerous way, the Frunze district prosecutor's office told the Minsk-Novosti correspondent.

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The defendant has been registered with a psychiatrist for many years in connection with his illness, has repeatedly been treated at the RSPC of mental health. In Minsk, for about a year, he rented a room in two on the street. Calvary.

In June 2026, he had another aggravation - during such periods he is strictly forbidden to drink alcohol. The man knew about it, but neglected his condition and went to drink in bars on the street. Chicken.

In the morning he called a taxi to go home. On the way, the defendant suddenly realized that he no longer wants to live there, and asked the driver to wait until he packed up. She agreed.

After packing the property and loading it into a taxi, the man returned to the apartment, deciding to steal some of the belongings of the owner and his son, who lived in the second room. Among them were a monitor, laptop, keyboard, computer mouse, electronic watches, clothes, documents, as well as money - $ 2,600, 100 euros, 105 BYN, 800 Armenian drams, 100 Thai baht. The total amount stolen was 10,647.21 BYN.

Then, with the help of two lighters, he set fire to a cardboard box from a scooter and put it on a mattress, after which he got into a taxi and asked the driver to take him to his mother in Molodechnensky district.

On the way, the man began to behave strangely, he called the staff of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, to whom he lied that he was in the apartment on the street. Calvary a few days ago. The passenger also smashed his smartphone on his knee, saying he no longer needed it. Upon arrival, it turned out that he had nothing to pay for the trip. The driver realized that the customer might have done something illegal. She told his mother not to disassemble the brought things, and herself, under the pretext that she would take the man to work, took him to the Frunze police station.

Seeing the fire in the apartment, neighbors called rescuers. As a result of the unlawful actions of the attacker, the floor covering, window, window sill, wall decoration, doors, wiring, mattresses, pillow, computer chair, lamps totaling 10,179.50 BYN were damaged.

“The citizen is single, has no children, is employed by a worker in a private company, has not previously been prosecuted,” said Andrei Serbun, deputy prosecutor of the Frunze district. His actions are qualified as intentional destruction and damage to someone else’s property, committed in a generally dangerous way, entailing damage on a large scale, and secret theft of property (theft), that is, he committed socially dangerous acts under Part 2 of Article 218 of the Criminal Code and Part 1 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code.

According to the expert's conclusion, the accused needs compulsory treatment in a psychiatric hospital with strict supervision. During the period of time relating to the acts incriminated to him, his mental state could not actually understand the nature and social danger of his actions and direct them.