"People are increasingly standing up for criminals, preventing their arrest": Penza police confirmed that residents of the region are "defending" men from being forced to go to war.
Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Penza region published an official statement on its website in which it denied "false information" that "Police officers detain the men and take them to military registration and enlistment offices for subsequent transfer to the zone of a special military operation."
"Police officers do not participate in such events and do not transport citizens to military registration and enlistment offices," - stressed in the department.
However, as follows from the official statement, individuals posing as police officers are still operating in the region and detaining men. The Ministry of Internal Affairs is conducting an investigation into these individuals. "a comprehensive check."
It also follows from the text of the official statement that "In light of the current situation, people are increasingly coming to the defense of offenders, preventing them from being detained by police officers."
In June Penza region thundered nationwide after reports of mass raids on men. Amidst rising panic, residents began to "fight off" detained men from police officers. For example, on June 24, sugar factory workers in the village of Bekovo drove away operatives who, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, were attempting to detain a suspect in the rape of a minor. On the same day, the police had to make excuses regarding a man who was suspected of theft and was detained at a gas station in the regional center.
Penza military commissar Andrey Surkov claimedthat panic among residents is being sowed by citizens receiving salaries from the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The last report of forced conscription to war from the Penza region was received on August 20: a resident Svetlana Bychkova of Kolyshleisky Districtcomplained the governor Oleg Melnichenko, that two men accompanied by the head of the village council Olga Moiseeva They took her husband right from his home and forced him to sign a contract, giving him some kind of injection.
