The Prosecutor’s office confirmed the indictment in the case of the artist Peter Pavlenkova, who set fire to the door of the building of FSB on Lubyanka. The materials are sent to Meshchansky district court of Moscow. On Wednesday, April 20, reported the website of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation.
The actionist accused of committing crimes under part 1 of article 243 of the criminal code of Russian Federation (“Damage of cultural heritage”). Pavlensky is still in custody, he extended the arrest until may 5.
On March 29, the artist was declared to be mentally sane.
First of actionist was accused of vandalism on motives of ideological hatred, and then found that the door of the building of the FSB represents cultural and historical value, so the article was changed. Pavlenkova threatened with imprisonment up to three years.
The artist had committed arson in November 2015. The fire eliminated, and the actionist and the two journalists-detained witnesses. “Burning the door of the KGB — it’s a glove that throws society into the face of the terrorist threat,” Pavlensky explained later in his blog.
This is not the first action of the artist. In October 2014 he cut off his earlobe, before climbing it to the roof of the Serbsky Institute, and in November 2013 the scrotum nailed to the cobblestones of the red square.
