In the Leningrad Region, a man bought self-tapping screws to damage a police service vehicle but was spotted and detained

Attempt to damage a police service vehicle

In the village of Agalatovo near Saint Petersburg, a 50-year-old local resident attempted to damage a police service vehicle. The incident was reported by the Telegram channel '112',, as cited by Gazeta.Ru. According to the source, the man spotted a police Skoda in a parking lot near a restaurant, went to a nearby hardware store, bought self-tapping screws and scattered a handful under each wheel of the foreign-made car, then stepped aside and began watching to see when the officers would drive off.

Detention and investigation

He failed to carry out his plan: the man was spotted before the car drove over the screws. When officers tried to detain him, he began waving his arms, grabbing at the officers' uniforms and attempted to flee, but was detained. An investigation into the incident is underway. The outlet also recalls two other recent cases in Saint Petersburg: it was previously reported that a teenager whom scammers had persuaded via a messenger app, under the pretext of helping his parents, to set fire to a Mercedes outside a police station, attempted to do so, and in another case a Ukrainian citizen tried to flee from the police with a grenade and did not manage to get away.