Court arrests man who set fire to ex-wife's house in Moscow Region for two months

The court of Solnechnogorsk city near Moscow has arrested for two months a 38-year-old resident of Moldavia, who set fire to the house where his ex-wife burned alive. About it on January 10 reports the GSU of the Investigative Committee (IC) of Russia in the Moscow region.

"A measure of restraint in the form of detention until March 8 has been elected," - specified in the Telegram-channel of the department.

The man is charged with murder of his ex-wife and attempted murder of her acquaintance (paragraphs "e", "f" of part 2 of article 105, part 3 of article 30, paragraph "a" of part 2 of article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). At the interrogation, the defendant admitted his guilt, and speaking about the motives of arson, said that he committed the crime out of jealousy.

Earlier, on January 9, a source of "Izvestia" reported that a 38-year-old man in Solnechnogorsk, Moscow region, deliberately set fire to a house with three people in it. The attacker deliberately poured gasoline on the front door and porch of a private house divided between two tenants and committed arson, blocking people's paths to evacuation. A 43-year-old woman, her neighbor and an unknown man were inside the house at the time of the incident. The woman died on the spot, while the second tenant and his companion managed to leave the burning building.