A Moscow court on Thursday ordered the arrest of a Russian citizen accused of setting fire to Lenin’s mausoleum on Red Square, a crime punishable by up to seven years in prison.
The court ordered the maintenance of Konstantin Starchukov’s prison for a period of two months pending trial, the Taganski court in Moscow said, quoted by the Ria Novosti news agency.
According to Russian media, the 37-year-old was arrested Monday evening after throwing a Molotov cocktail at the mausoleum that houses the embalmed body of former Soviet leader Lenin.
The court gave no details about the alleged motives for the act.
In May of this year, another man also tried to attack the mausoleum in the same way. Already in February, another person, drunk, tried to steal the mummy of the founder of the Soviet Union.
The debate about what to do with the body of the Bolshevik revolutionary is recurring in Russia. In 2019, President Vladimir Putin said he was against burying him.
Inaugurated after his death in 1924, Lenin’s mausoleum is located on Red Square in Moscow, next to the Kremlin walls, and is visited by thousands of tourists every year.
Source: DN
