Police seize the walls of Vilnius Old Town

Graffiti on buildings and structures, mainly in Užupis, the old town, Antakalnis, causes great harm to their owners and the municipal administration, as they have to be painted or cleaned every time. In recent years, the Vilnius city municipality administration has suffered about 300 thousand. to damage.

After receiving a statement from the Vilnius Municipal Administration on property damage, a pre-trial investigation was launched in accordance with article 187 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Lithuania. 2 d. The statement identified around 150 locations with various registered graffiti. After analysis of the photos of the drawings, the most frequently repeated drawings were highlighted: the signatures on the drawers, the so-called “labels”, reports the Vilnius police.

Vilnius County Officers from Division 2 of the Criminal Police Property Crimes Investigation Board of the Chief Commissariat of Police identified the suspects. September 10, one of them, aged eighteen (born in 2002), was arrested and detained. During the search of the suspect’s home, material evidence relevant to the pre-trial investigation was found and confiscated: spray paints, markers, clothing, sketch drawings, miscellaneous video material, as well as the possible narcotic substance “herb.” The young man was charged with a crime and placed in preventive detention, a written commitment not to leave.

Article 187 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Lithuania. 2 d. provided that a person who has destroyed or damaged other property in the form of general danger or dismantling or damaging a facility or assembly, if he may have injured people, or destroyed, dismantled or damaged property or part of the infrastructure of a national security infrastructure strategic or important, or destroyed or damaged foreign property of high value or property of great scientific, historical or cultural importance, punishable by arrest or imprisonment of up to five years.