This is stated on the website of the department.

“A criminal case has been opened on the grounds of a crime under Part 3 of Art. 30, part 1, article 105 of the Criminal Code of Russia (“attempted murder”), ”the statement said.

According to investigators, on August 21, a suspect in a crime during a quarrel on the basis of a sudden personal hostility decided to burn down a previously unknown man. To do this, he took a plastic canister filled with flammable liquid, doused the victim, and then made an arson.

According to the medical documents available to the investigators, the victim received thermal burns of degrees 2 and 3 as a result of the attack.

Earlier in the south of Moscow, an unknown man doused a man with liquid and set fire to it, after which he disappeared from the scene of an emergency. The suspect was later detained by law enforcement officials.