Vakhtang Kipshidze, deputy head of the Synodal Department of Church, Society and Media Relations, told Gazeta.ru that a person who burned an icon in a landfill in Tyumen could be mentally ill. Kipshidze noted that the burning of religious symbols is “absolutely unacceptable”.
“It is difficult for me to make a judgment without knowing all the circumstances of the case, but I believe the most likely cause of this behavior is this person’s mental illness. The presence of mental abnormalities is determined by the appointed state examination, respectively, according to its results, a decision is made on how much a person can be held responsible for his crime. I think the control will create all the conditions. “I think that burning religious symbols and religious shrines is absolutely unacceptable for any believer, moreover, a person who considers himself to be a member of any traditional religion,” he said.
Previously in the community “ChS Tyumen” in the social network “VKontakte” printed A video shot by a local resident of a man burning icons near trash cans. As the man in the video says, he no longer “believes in icons” and destroys them so that no one can buy it because “a lot has happened” in his house.
How reported In the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, after the video posted on the network was checked by police officers, the man’s actions will be subject to a legal assessment according to the law.