Two Persons Detained as Suspects in Attacking BT Building

The Anar­chist Black Cross report­ed about the deten­tion on their web­site; the don’t deny their involve­ment in the action.

On June 9, three masked men threw bulbs filled with paint at the build­ing of the state-run Belaru­sian Tele­vi­sion and Radio Com­pa­ny (BT). Lat­er, the Belaru­sian anar­chist move­ment pub­lished the video of their protest against the ‘pro­pa­gan­dists who help the regime to com­mit crimes’.

Vias­na pro­vide infor­ma­tion that a crim­i­nal case has been ini­ti­at­ed accord­ing to art. 339 part 2 of the Crim­i­nal Code (hooli­gan­ism com­mit­ted repeat­ed­ly or by a group of peo­ple). The arti­cle envis­ages an arrest up to 6 months or free­dom restric­tion up to 6 years.

The BT rep­re­sen­ta­tives called the inci­dent “an act of con­tem­po­rary art” and promised to pub­li­cize “the names of the hooli­gans, their teach­ers and edu­ca­tion­al estab­lish­ments” in the crim­i­nal chron­i­cle pro­gram Zona X.