Man arrested in Moscow for attempting to firebomb Lenin’s mausoleum

A person has been detained in Moscow after throwing a Molotov cocktail on the infamous Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin’s tomb within the Pink Sq. in a failed try and set it on fireplace, based on native stories.

The suspect, recognized as 37-year-old Konstantin Stachukov, from town of Chita, was taken into custody Monday, based on a number of Russian information shops.

At round 10 p.m. native time, Stachukov approached the closely guarded crypt and hurled a bottle containing a flammable liquid on the imposing constructing, based on Telegram information channels Baza and Shot, in addition to the state information company RIA Novosti.

The Molotov cocktail hit the bottom outdoors the landmark and caught fireplace, however the red-granite tomb was not broken.

Stachukov was apprehended by cops on the scene and charged with “failing to adjust to the authorized demand of a regulation enforcement official.”

The firebombing suspect was hauled off to a police station. There was no speedy phrase on a doable motive behind the fiery assault.

It was not the primary time that Stachukov has focused Lenin’s closing resting place, based on a report.

The 37-year-old had been detained on Might 17 after being caught within the Pink Sq. with two bottles of gasoline, however he was not criminally charged on the time, according to the Telegram news outlet 112.

Across the identical time, Stachukov was confined to a psychological well being facility for behaving erratically, reported Mash. It was unclear whether or not his hospitalization adopted the incident within the Pink Sq..  

In March, Moscow police caught an unhinged man who allegedly tried to enter the Bolshevik firebrand’s mausoleum whereas ranting that “Vladimir Lenin needed to allegedly absolve him of his sins,” reported the state information company TASS.

A month earlier, a drunk man allegedly tried to grab Lenin’s embalmed corpse from the tomb.

Lenin’s preserved physique has been on near-continuous show in Moscow since shortly after his dying in 1924.

The imposing mausoleum, designed within the Egyptian revival type, was constructed particularly to accommodate the founding father of the Soviet Union and was accomplished in 1930.