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The court sentenced Stepan Komarov to 24 years’ imprisonment in a penal colony

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Stepan mosquitoes, known as the “Sakhalin shooter” was sentenced to a lengthy term. Sakhalin Regional Court sentenced him to 24 years’ imprisonment in a penal colony. In February 2014 Komarov made a fire in the Resurrection Cathedral in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.

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staged in February 2014 fire on worshipers at the Resurrection Cathedral in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk former bodyguard Stepan Komarov was sentenced to 24 years’ imprisonment in a penal colony. The sentence handed down Sakhalin Regional Court. Komarov was charged with murder, intentionally causing bodily harm, damage to property, hooliganism, vandalism, damage to cultural property, inciting hatred or enmity and was found guilty on all counts. On Tuesday Tass news agency reported.

Recall that in February 2014 in the main cathedral of the South Sakhalin and the Kuril diocese – the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ – a gunman burst and fired several shots. From his injuries on the spot died serving the temple nun Lyudmila and a parishioner of the Cathedral. Another six people were injured. Shoot them in the press dubbed “Sakhalin shooter.” It appeared to be working as a security guard in one of the agencies of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Stepan Komarov.

Komarov pleaded guilty and cooperated with the investigation at an early stage of the investigation, reports “Interfax”. According to his testimony, the crime was committed because of hatred for the Russian Orthodox Church. Komarov reported that he came to the temple to shoot icons, kill parishioners he was going. According to him, shooting at people, he opened due to the fact that they did not obey his orders to leave the church.

In the future, Stepan Komarov recanted. However, the investigation failed to prove that Mosquitoes drove aimed fire in the temple on the accumulations of the congregation, “intentionally committed the murder of two parishioners motivated by religious hatred”.