Event 175

{
  "category": "Sabotage",
  "confidence": "Low",
  "confidence_rationale": "The event is well-documented by a national news outlet, includes statements from police, city officials, and the president, and matches a recent pattern of symbolic attacks reported in Lithuania.",
  "country": "Lithuania",
  "defense_prep": {},
  "description": "Twelve Lithuanian national flags were desecrated in Klaipėda on March 8, 2024, in what local authorities and residents suspect may be a deliberate provocation. The flags were pulled out, stems broken, and some flags burnt. A police investigation is underway into the incident, which is being treated as an attack on state symbols.",
  "event_time_utc": "2024-03-08T12:00:00Z",
  "evidence": [
    "https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2218344/a-provocation-12-lithuanian-flags-desecrated-in-klaipeda",
    "Screenshot shows headline, police comments, and statements by Klaipėda officials and Lithuania's President."
  ],
  "evidence_quotes": [
    "Twelve cases of desecration of Lithuanian national flags were recorded in Klaipėda on Friday. The locals talk about a possible provocation.",
    "It was reported that some of the flags were pulled out of their places, the stems were broken, and other flags were burnt.",
    "A pre-trial investigation has been opened into the desecration of state symbols.",
    "The police did not comment on whether this was a political provocation, but locals do not rule out such a possibility.",
    "Attacks on Lithuanian statehood symbols – flags and monuments – are planned and coordinated abroad, according to President Gitanas Nausėda."
  ],
  "extra": {
    "category_raw": "Flag Desecration",
    "extra": {
      "extra": {
        "extra": {
          "evidence": [
            "https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2218344/a-provocation-12-lithuanian-flags-desecrated-in-klaipeda",
            "Screenshot shows headline, police comments, and statements by Klaipėda officials and Lithuania's President."
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "fifth_column_countries": [
    "LT"
  ],
  "follow_up_by_country": [],
  "headline": "A provocation? 12 Lithuanian flags desecrated in Klaipėda",
  "location_text": "Klaipėda",
  "media_assets": [
    {
      "description": "Screenshot capture",
      "type": "screenshot",
      "url": "/media/event_175_1763918575_a91ad6f2.jpg"
    }
  ],
  "notes": "Sabotage. Desecration of Lithuanian flags in Klaipeda",
  "schema_version": "v1",
  "screenshot_count": 1,
  "sources": [
    "https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2218344/a-provocation-12-lithuanian-flags-desecrated-in-klaipeda"
  ],
  "summary_short": "12 Lithuanian national flags desecrated in Klaipėda in a suspected provocation; police investigate attack on state symbols.",
  "url": "https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2218344/a-provocation-12-lithuanian-flags-desecrated-in-klaipeda"
}

{
  "5th Column of Russians Inside (which countries)": "LT",
  "Attack Type": "Flag Desecration",
  "Borders Including Sea, Air,  Violation or Sabotage (which countries)": "",
  "Continuous? (e.g. Jammers)": "",
  "Country (FI;EE;LV;LT;PL;BSR;Air)\nSeparated by Semicolon": "LT",
  "Date": "8-Mar-24",
  "Defense Prep Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL)": "",
  "Defense Prep Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL) REF LINK": "",
  "Follow-Up Link?  (FI,EE,LV,LT,PL, BSR, Air)": "",
  "Follow-Up NOTES": "",
  "Follow-Up incl. Investigation, Prosecution?  (FI,EE,LV,LT,PL, BSR, Air)": "",
  "Latitude, Longitude (WGS84, Decimal Degrees)": "",
  "NOTES": "Sabotage. Desecration of Lithuanian flags in Klaipeda",
  "Political Disruptions w/ Laws to Favor Kremlin (which countries)": "",
  "Russian-Belarus Terrorist Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL)": "Sabotage. Desecration of ??Lithuanian flags in Klaipeda",
  "Russian-Belarus Terrorist Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL) REF LINK": "https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2218344/a-provocation-12-lithuanian-flags-desecrated-in-klaipeda",
  "Screen Snapshot": "",
  "Screen Snapshots": "",
  "Type Dropdown": "",
  "Where?\n(Air, Land, Sea)": ""
}