At the beginning of February, a "repentant video" appeared on pro-government Telegram channels with two teenage girls who took a photo with a burning paper icon on January 28 near the Orthodox Cathedral of Minsk.

Security forces also said that they found "photos of the swastika and other Nazi-oriented photos" in the girls' phones.

"Christian Vision" reports that Metropolitan Veniamin is involved in the criminal persecution of two 15-year-old girls from Myen.

The publication notes that the hierarch personally demanded to hand over the video from church surveillance cameras to the investigative committee.

As a result, minors were detained and a criminal case was initiated against them under Part 2 of Art.

339 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus ("malicious hooliganism").

The girls - Ksenia S. and Vera P. - face up to 6 years in prison.

"Our team is outraged by the disproportionality of the measures taken by the higher clergy of the BOC in relation to 15-year-old girls.

Stupid mischief of teenagers, multiplied by ardent "righteousness" results in broken destinies of children and grief in families," says the message of the "Christian Vision" Telegram channel.