For the first time, the Belarusian Ministry of Internal Affairs opened a criminal case regarding the denial of genocide against the Belarusian people. In this respect Telegram The press service of the ministry reported.
Employees of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption (GUBOPiK) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus were detained for 54 years with the force support of SOBR soldiers of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Former resident of Minsk.
According to the ministry, the man created and managed a group on a social network in 2020, where he published disruptive protest materials aimed at changing the country’s constitutional system. At the same time, in his publications he “denied the genocide of the Belarusian people by the German invaders during the Great Patriotic War, rehabilitated the fascists and attributed the crimes committed by the invaders to Soviet citizens.”
The report said, “With such posts, the detainee tried to denigrate the memory of the victims of Nazism and the heroes who fought the enemy.”
A criminal case was opened against the detainee under the articles of denial of the genocide against the Belarusian people, as well as the organization and preparation of actions that grossly violate public order, insult the president and include the rehabilitation of Nazism.
Earlier, Lukashenko said that Nazism was again approaching the borders of Belarus.