MOSCOW — Prosecutors have charged a Russian blogger who wrote on a popular Internet site that police should be publicly incinerated in what is believed to be the country’s first such case against a blogger.
Savva Terentyev said Wednesday he was charged with inciting hatred in a court in the northern city of Syktyvkar. The charges filed Tuesday stemmed from his posting on a Web forum in February 2007 that criticized police in the wake of a raid on an opposition newspaper.
“They’re trash — and those that become cops are simply trash, dumb, uneducated representatives of the animal world,” he wrote. “It would be good if in the center of every town in Russia . . . an oven was built, like at Auschwitz, in which ceremonially, every day, and better yet, twice a day . . . the infidel cops were burnt. This would be the first step toward cleaning society of these cop-hoodlum scum.”
