Arson Pavlensky doors FSB considered “destruction of cultural heritage” – RBC

Review of request for the arrest of the artist Peter Pavlensky, November 2015 g.

Photo: Mikhail Japaridze / TASS

The case of arson door FSB building in relation to the artist Peter Pavlensky reclassified to a heavier article “Destruction of cultural heritage. ” Previously, the artist was accused of vandalism

The investigating authorities reclassified the criminal case against the artist Peter Pavlensky. This was to “Interfax” said his lawyer Dmitry Dinze.

According to him, about the diversion on article 243 of the Criminal Code (destruction of cultural heritage) with st.214 Criminal Code (vandalism) Pavlensky said via video link at the hearing. The artist said that the reclassification occurred recently

Unlike st.214 the Criminal Code, according to article 243 of the Criminal Code the accused can get a longer term of imprisonment -. Up to six years. The maximum penalty for “Vandalism” article provides three years of imprisonment.

The campaign, during which the artist has set fire to the door of the FSB building in Lubyanka, was held in November 2015. Immediately after the rally Pavlensky sent to ATS Meshchansky district on suspicion of disorderly conduct. Then his lawyer Olga Chavdar noted that the artist’s interrogation lasted several hours. According to her, the law enforcers have tried to get an answer to one question: if he wanted someone’s death? To this has been given a negative answer.

FSB door at the Lubyanka closed metal sheets after the action of Peter Pavlensky. Photo: November 2015 Photo: Mikhail Japaridze / TASS

Later, the criminal case was instituted against Pavlensky, and by the decision of the Tagansky court he He was sent under arrest. According to “Interfax”, by the decision of the Moscow City Court the artist will stay in custody until at least 5 April. The artist asked to investigate the arson of the door of the building of the FSB as terrorism.

As explained Chavdar “Novaya Gazeta”, the action is called “threat. Last minute the doors of the Lubyanka. ” “Perhaps Pavlensky meant a sharp increase in criminal cases on terrorism against the Russians. What do any of us could be declared a terrorist “, – said the lawyer. On Pavlensky court, explaining the purpose of the action, he said that FSB condemns fabricated criminal cases of so-called terrorists. “People set fire to ballot boxes and they were accused of terrorism”, – said the artist

Pavlensky has been gaining popularity because of their political orientation shares.. In the summer of 2012, he held an action “seam”: the artist sewed his mouth and went to the Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg with a poster in support of the member of the group Pussy Riot.

In May 2013, the artist was lying naked in the “cocoon” barbed wire near the entrance of the building of St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly. The action was called “carcass.” In November of the same year the artist nailed his genitals to the cobblestones of Red Square next to the Mausoleum. He timed this action – “Lock” – the Day of Police

A year aktsionist, climbing on a fence behalf of the Serbian Institute, a knife cut off his right ear lobe.. This action Pavlensky protested against the use of psychiatry for political purposes.