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According to the case data, in 2018. In December, late at night, a roundabout belonging to a group of hunters was damaged by an explosion in a resort surrounded by the Juškaičiai forest in the Šiauliai district: they found broken windows, cracked doors, fragments thrown on the floor and benches. and the roof of the gazebo was damaged. But then the hunters did not go to the police because they did not expect the culprits to be found.
The court reported that a few months after the explosion, an extraordinary inventory of explosives and ammunition at the Lithuanian army unit in Radviliškis revealed that 4 units were missing. Hand grenades.
After initiating the pre-trial investigation, the Lithuanian Armed Forces military police officers soon identified the suspects: a professional military service soldier and a former soldier. According to the case, on that night in 2018, the defendants went with their friends to the hunter’s house and threw an offensive hand grenade at the house to damage the opponent’s life force and objects. The devastating explosion damaged the building.
During the closing statements of this case, the prosecutor supporting the state indictment affirmed that the data collected in the case from various sources confirm that the defendants MB and AS possessed an assault hand grenade containing high explosives and also deliberately caused a explosion when using this grenade. ., during which foreign property was damaged.
The prosecutor proposed that MB be found guilty and sentenced to 4 years and 9 months in prison, a part of 1 year and 3 months in prison, to make repairs at home immediately, postpone the remaining sentence for 2 years, forcing MB to work or register in the job bank during the suspended sentence., not to leave the city (district) of the place of residence without the permission of the institution that supervises the convicted person.
The AS prosecutor asked the court to find him guilty and imprison him for 5 years to 9 months. The prosecutor asked the court to fully satisfy the civil action and to award the plaintiff 2,081 euros in pecuniary damage.
The defendants argued that there was no conclusive evidence in the event that their defendants had committed the crimes charged against them. The defense noted that no fragments or parts of the explosive devices were found at the scene, much less fragments of the model grenade mentioned in the case. According to lawyers, there is no link between the theft of explosives from a military unit and an explosion. The lawyers asked the court to acquit their defendants of all the crimes they were charged with.
Defendant AS said that without seeing or taking grenades, the man asked the court to acquit him. MB said a firecracker was thrown at the shelter during the incident, which he said could not have damaged the roof. The defendant said he was very sorry that after being able to deal with those firecrackers, he asked the court to acquit him.
The court that heard the case determined that the specified objective data of the case (findings of experts, expert testimony, traces found at the scene), other material of the case confirm that the defendants MB and AS had illegally disposed of the grenade of hand OffHGR85 and started the explosion in the hunter’s gazebo. and at the same time denies the defendant MB’s version of throwing Dum Bum into the hunter’s roundabout, having previously lit the fireworks gate, that is, initiating the fireworks explosion using an external fire source, As much The expert report and the expert’s explanations indicate that in the video the explosion of the explosive seen in the file was not initiated by an outside fire source, the visible explosion is not the pyrotechnic means mentioned by the accused.
For illicit possession of a combat grenade, the court found MB guilty and sentenced him to 4 years and 3 months in prison, with partial suspension of the sentence, with 8 months of immediate prison and 2 years of suspension for the rest of the term. penalty not served. The court ordered MB to work or register with the Employment Service under the Ministry of Social Security and Labor of the Republic of Lithuania during the postponement of the sentence, not to leave the city (district) of residence without the permission of the institution that supervises the conviction.
For illegal possession of a combat grenade, the AS court found him guilty and sentenced him to 5 years in prison, with partial suspension of the sentence, 2 years in prison to be served immediately, and postponement of the remaining sentence not served to 3 years, ordering AS during the period of postponement of the execution of the sentence to work or register in the Employment Service under the Ministry of Social Security and Labor of the Republic of Lithuania, not to leave the city (district) of residence without the permission of the institution supervising the convict.
The court warned that after using all reasonable procedural possibilities in the case, it was not possible to dispel the doubts as to whether the roof of said gazebo had been damaged by the explosion of the grenade mentioned in the accusation. There is no objective data on file to calculate the value of the property (gazebo roof) that was damaged (if the property was damaged). MB and AS have been acquitted of property damage, since no act has been committed that shows evidence of crime or fault.
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