Tuesday, 10 November 2015

Pavlensky Demands to be Charged with Terrorism



Pyotr Pavlensky, a famous Russian performance artist currently on trial for setting fire to a door of the Federal Security Service (FSB) office building, demanded the court amend the charge — which is currently vandalism — to terrorism, Mediazona news website reported Tuesday.
"I demand to become a suspect [in the case of] terrorism. I believe that's the logic of your system. Until you fulfill my demand, I refuse to comply with the court rituals," he was cited by Mediazona as saying.

Pavlensky was detained by police officers at 3 a.m near the FSB building on Lubyanskaya Ploshchad. He used a canister of gasoline and a lighter to set the doorway alight.

Source: THEMOSCOWTIMES

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