According to militia, fascist swastika is not “disturbance of public peace”

• 3.05.2008, 11:26

The office of the Belarusian Popular Front party (BPF) received an order to dismiss criminal complaint “on the facts on window damage and drawing inscriptions on office’s door.”

Militia decided these actions (including drawing of fascist swastika) were not “gross disturbance of public peace.”

It should be reminded that unknown people broke window in the BPF office, wrote “Minsk is Russian city” and drew fascist swastika at night 30 March. Moreover, leaflets of the unregistered National Bolshevik Party were found out on the scene.

It was found out that Militia Academy cadet Kruhlik, who was walking around night Minsk with his wife, saw three men near the BPF office “drawing inscriptions on the door.“ Moreover, the cadet heard sound of alarm. Kruhlik phoned to militia and said about the crime. Meanwhile, the offenders, having committed the black deed, went away: on of them went to metro, and the two others took tram 3 to Serabranka district, the newspaper “Salidarnast” writes.

Following the results of the examination the Soviet district militia department decided to dismiss criminal complaint and sent the following order to the BPF office: “Tracing activities have failed to found out a person, who wrote an inscription and damaged the window... There are no elements of a crime, provided by article 339 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus in the actions of unknown people. The examination showed these actions were not directed to disturbance of public peace and didn’t cause public disorder.”

Surely! Under definition of the current authorities, “disturbance of public peace” is if someone writes “I love Belarus” on a wall. But one may draw as many swastikas as one wishs!