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Vandals Detained for Destroying Crosses on Graves

11.08.2011, 09:13

In the village of Lozovske of Sloviano-Serbskyi District of the Luhansk Oblast in the east of Ukraine, police have detained a group of minors who danced on graves at a local cemetery and destroyed twenty gravestones and crosses.

In the village of Lozovske of Sloviano-Serbskyi District of the Luhansk Oblast in the east of Ukraine, police have detained a group of minors who danced on graves at a local cemetery and destroyed twenty gravestones and crosses, Tetiana Pohukai, the press secretary of the Main Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in the Luhansk Oblast, reported to UNIAN.

According to her, six boys and girls aged 11-16 committed the sacrilege being drunk.

She said that the vandals were detained. Proceedings were initiated against two of them aged 14 and 16 according to Article 27 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. They may be imprisoned for 3-5 years.

Tags: #Vandalism
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