A Kropotkin resident was convicted for commenting on the terrorist attack.

A military court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced a Kropotkin resident to a fine, finding his comment on a messenger to be a public justification of terrorism.

"Caucasian Knot" reported that courts in southern Russia regularly sentence local residents to prison terms for social media posts under the statute of justification of terrorism via the internet. It is impossible to determine the actual number of such sentences, as not all cases of justification of terrorism are included in public court records.

The Southern District Military Court sentenced a Kropotkin resident whose comment on a messenger was deemed by investigators to be a public justification of terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Russian Criminal Code carries a sentence of five to seven years in prison).

The court found that, while at home in Kropotkin on the evening of March 22, 2024, a man posted a comment in an open chat under a video recording of a terrorist attack. Experts concluded that his statement "substantiated the admissibility and fairness of the actions of those who committed the terrorist attack," the Krasnodar Krai Prosecutor's Office reported on its Telegram channel.

The office noted that the defendant "fully admitted his guilt and repented of his actions."

The court took into account his mitigating circumstances and fined the man 340,000 rubles. He was also banned from administering websites and internet pages for two years, and the mobile phone from which he published his comment was confiscated and turned over to the state.

The prosecutor's office did not provide the defendant's name, age, or occupation in the statement. Judging by the date in the case file, the Kropotkin resident's comment could have referred to the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall on the evening of March 22, 2024.

The terrorist attack in Krasnogorsk was one of the largest in the Moscow region in 30 years. According to official figures as of March 30, 2024, 144 people were killed and 551 were injured. In March 2026, a Moscow court sentenced the perpetrators of the terrorist attack to life imprisonment.

In November 2024, it became known that residents of Ingushetia from the Batalkhadzhinsky district were among the defendants in the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall near Moscow. Khusein Medov and Dzhabrail Aushev were arrested on charges of illegal arms and explosives trafficking.

News on this topic is published by the "Caucasian Knot" on the topic page "Terrorist Attacks in Moscow and the Caucasus".