Schoolgirls put out the Eternal Flame in St. Petersburg

This was reported by the press service of the GUMVD of Russia in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region.

In the afternoon of December 19, the police received a message that the Eternal Flame was not burning in the park of Krasnoe Selo and that there was a smell of gas.

Interior Ministry officers reviewed the video surveillance footage and identified those involved in the incident.

“They were two 13-year-old girls throwing snowballs into the flames.

The minors were taken to the police department, and their parents were immediately informed about this, ”the press service of RIA Novosti quotes.

We had a preventive conversation with the children.

Parents of girls will be held administratively liable for inappropriate behavior.

It is noted that the burning of the Eternal Flame has been restored.

Earlier, "Nevskie Novosti" reported that in St. Petersburg they are looking for unknown persons who extinguished the eternal flame at the memorial to the "Fighters of the Revolution" on the Field of Mars.