Estonian police in the city of Tallinn have opened a criminal case against two men who publicly played the Russian Federation anthem. This is reported by the Delfi portal.
“An administrative case has been initiated against two men who took a sound speaker into the courtyard of an apartment building in Tallinn’s Mustamäe district and switched on the Russian anthem at full volume. The case was initiated under the article stipulating liability for displaying symbols related to an act of aggression, genocide, crime against humanity or war crime,” the publication said.
The Estonian police explained to Delfi that the Estonian law-enforcement agencies consider listening to the Russian national anthem in public places as “to the public demonstration of a symbol linked to the commission of an act of aggression, which in the current situation is clearly perceived as support for the war in Ukraine”.
We will remind, earlier in the press service of the Põhja prefecture of the police said that in Tallinn a man was fined 500 euros for a sticker on the car “I am Russian”. Estonian law enforcement authorities argued that the man was “inciting hatred” in Estonian society.