From Echo Moskvy
A visitor to a church on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street breaks an icon worth 1 million roubles (£20,000, 22,500€)
“The unknown woman acted aggressively, swore”, police confirmed, and then broke the icon in a show of hooliganism. How this occurred has not been specified.
According to Interfax, the arrested woman is a 30-year-old resident of the Bryanskaya Oblast. It is currently being decided whether charges will be brought against her.
Comments from Echo Moskvy
zvn46:
So, execution? Or life imprisonment?
ezel53:
Maybe the Duma will come up with a new law on glass in churches. But who valued the icon, isn’t it a sin? Maybe it was valued by weight?
rolling: (responding to above)
Nah, the cost is proportionate to the cost of nanofoam for the patriarch’s flat.
lvovjanin:
“Shitty God, shitty God” was about Putin, that’s why there was a prison sentence. But for a million rouble icon (by the way, where’s this number come from?) it’ll hardly be a prison sentence. [Note: this commenter is referring to Pussy Riot‘s Punk Prayer]
viuga:
“A little twosie”, no? [Note: this commenter is referring to an uncommon word Putin used to refer to Pussy Riot‘s sentence]
kimonadasas: (responding to previous commenter)
If she didn’t say anything bad about Putin, they won’t give her a twosie.
podvodn1k:
Religion is weird. The pope drives sports cars, icons made out of gold. Jesus rode a donkey…
sesk:
Could this have been… someone from Pussy Riot??:)
rolling:
Good for her. Religion is the opium of the masses!
maodz:
Priceless, no?
sozercatel:
7 years hard labour and a 3 million rouble fine [£60,000, 67,500€]. She needs to answer for her behaviour.
boris_boone: (responding to above)
Shoot her and confiscate the belongings of all her relatives and loved ones. Bomb Bryansk to hell, so that Bryanskers know how to behave towards icons. 7 years won’t teach her anything.
bowdick:
The woman clearly needs an exorcist, or treatment for alcoholism.
chitator:
Echo: “broke the icon in a show of hooliganism. How this occurred has not been specified.” They don’t know how it happened, but they know it was a show of hooliganism. Ah, you journalists, you guys are great.
