In Moscow, a student was detained after setting fire to a transformer cabinet

The young man after meeting in the chatbot “Daivinchik” set fire to a transformer cabinet on the Moscow Railway (MZD), the press service of the Western Interregional Investigation Department for Transport of the Investigative Committee of Russia reported.

According to the investigation, on October 1, at the 630th kilometer of the Khimki-Molzhaninovo stretch of the Leningrad direction of the MZD, the young man opened the transformer cabinet, doused it with solvent and set fire to it. He filmed what was happening with his mobile phone.

In relation to the 18-year-old student, a native of Vladivostok, opened a criminal case under paragraph “a” of part 2 of article 205 of the criminal code – a terrorist act. He was detained by investigators together with transport police officers. The court at the request of the investigation sent the young man into custody.

It is established that the young man was involved in criminal activity through the chatbot "Davinchik". On the fact of inducing and recruiting a minor, a criminal case was initiated under Article 205.1 of the Criminal Code (assistance in terrorist activities), the report said.

Investigators establish the circumstances of the incident.

Earlier, on September 23, in Krasnogorsk near Moscow, a 17-year-old teenager set fire to a column at a gas station and a police officer’s official car. The fire was extinguished and no one was injured.

The teenager was arrested. During the interrogation, he said that he acted on the instructions of unknown persons who contacted him in the messenger and introduced themselves as security officers. In fact, the incident opened a criminal case under part 2 of article 167 of the criminal code.