This was reported on the website of the Belarusian Prosecutor General's Office.
It is noted that “the criminal actions were expressed in the public removal and replacement of the symbol of sovereign Belarus - the State Flag, which was installed in the center of Riga in connection with the participation of the national team in the World Hockey Championship, with a white-red-white cloth”.
The report says that "such an outrage over state symbols humiliated the national dignity of Belarusians."
Earlier it was reported that the mayor of Riga Martins Stakis, together with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia Edgar Rinkevich at the World Ice Hockey Championship, replaced the national flag of Belarus with the white-red-white flag, which was official in 1991-1995.
Later, the Belarusian Foreign Ministry announced that the Latvian ambassador was asked to leave Belarus within 24 hours.
In addition, a similar measure was applied to the entire diplomatic and administrative-technical staff of the embassy.
In response, the Latvian Foreign Ministry decided to expel Belarusian diplomats "until relations are normalized."