Overview
- Emergency services quickly extinguished a blaze after a flammable liquid was ignited during a screening at a cinema inside the Aviapark shopping center in Moscow.
- The Interior Ministry, via spokesperson Irina Volk, confirmed the incident and said the youth was detained at the scene with no casualties reported.
- The Moscow Prosecutor’s Office said preliminary findings indicate the teenager was coerced over the phone by unknown callers who claimed he had broken the law.
- According to prosecutors, the teen conducted an at-home video call "search," photographed his father’s bank card, tried to move funds, and carried a gasoline canister into the theater before lighting it with a lighter.
- The cinema’s press office declined to comment, and prosecutors urged parents to warn children about scam calls, noting real law enforcement do not issue such instructions by phone.