Moscow student gets 10 days in jail for throwing shoe at Lenin’s sarcophagus

Source: Tverskoy Court of Moscow

A Moscow court has sentenced an 18-year-old college student to 10 days in jail after he struck Lenin’s sarcophagus and threw a loafer at it during a visit to the mausoleum on Red Square, the Telegram news channel Ostorozhno Moskva and the independent Russian news outlet Mediazona reported.

Konstantin Bodunov visited Lenin’s Mausoleum on the afternoon of April 8, waited in line, and made his way to the sarcophagus containing Lenin’s body, according to the court ruling and Russian media reports. He struck the sarcophagus several times and threw one of his loafers at it.

Bodunov, a first-year student, did not admit guilt. He said he acted because he disagreed with Vladimir Lenin’s economic and religious policies, Ostorozhno Moskva reported. The court convicted him of petty hooliganism under part 2 of Article 20.1 of Russia’s administrative offenses code.

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