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Girl jailed for rioting
TALLINN - A Tallinn court has given a one-year sentence to an Estonian girl for her involvement in the April 2007 "Bronze Soldier" riots that swept through the city.The defendant, identified as Annika, born in 1990, was found guilty of offenses committed during the mass disorder that followed the April removal of the Bronze Soldier monument from downtown Tallinn. She was handed a one-year suspended sentence with 1.5 years of probation.
It has been established that Annika entered an optician's shop in central Tallinn as it was being looted by rioters on the night of April 26 and took frames of glasses from the shop.
She also accepted from another participant in the riots a bottle of sparkling wine stolen from the Spanish Corner store in downtown Tallinn.
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