Pak Sahafat – The President of the Russian Federation emphasized the punishment of the person who desecrated the Holy Quran in Volgograd in the west of this country and said: This person will serve his sentence in the Muslim region of Russia.
TASS news agency quoted Vladimir Putin on Tuesday evening and added: Not only was the investigation of the Quran burning case transferred to Chechen investigators, but the criminal will also be sent to a colony in one of the Muslim-populated areas to execute the sentence.
It was around the first of June that Russian news sources reported: Nikita Zhuravel was arrested for burning the Koran near the Cathedral Mosque in Volgograd and was transferred to a detention center in Grozny, the capital of the Muslim Republic of Chechnya.
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These sources further wrote from the words of a law enforcement source: the person arrested on suspicion of burning the Quran in front of a mosque in Volgograd admitted that he had cooperated with the Ukrainian security service.
According to this report, the Investigative Committee has filed a criminal case against this person for insulting the religious feelings of Muslims on the orders of the Ukrainian special services.
This report states: In Article 148 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, public actions expressing clear disrespect to society and committing to insult the religious feelings of believers are recognized as crimes.
TASS News Agency further wrote: According to the press service of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Zhuravel (the perpetrator of desecration of the Holy Quran) has done this action on the order of the Ukrainian special services for a reward of 10 thousand rubles.