Event 735

{
  "category": "Sabotage",
  "confidence": "Low",
  "confidence_rationale": "Multiple direct quotes from officials, detailed reporting on the incident, explicit statement of law-enforcement actions.",
  "country": "Latvia",
  "defense_prep": {},
  "description": "Unknown individuals smashed the windows of the 'Corner House' (former KGB building, now Latvian Occupation Museum) in Riga. The police have ruled out an organized crime link, but investigations continue as Russian speakers have reportedly promised a repeat of history and deportation via phone threats.",
  "event_time_utc": "2025-01-15T12:00:00Z",
  "evidence": [
    "Article reports direct statements from guides, police, and museum officials.",
    "Reference to ongoing investigations by Riga East Department of the State Police.",
    "Details about threats being received and previous similar incidents."
  ],
  "evidence_quotes": [
    "Another attack on the Corner House (former KGB building)... three windows have been smashed. People working there regularly receive threats by phone.",
    "Guide Avars Ruksitols shows the three showcases of the Corner House, the glass of which was broken last week.",
    "Surveillance camera footage is activated. But the thieves did not enter.",
    "Latvian Television reported on January 14.",
    "All criminal proceedings have been initiated for one. The guilty person has been identified and arrested. We have not established the motive, but there are two obvious parallel probes.",
    "The museum said its staff believe that attacks on the Occupation Museum in Old Riga are reported to one extent or another, while the attacks on the Corner House are photo documented, showing the actual picture.",
    "We do not see a single crime or system pattern that specifically targets the Museum of the Occupation."
  ],
  "evidence_urls": [
    "https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/crime/15.01.2025-windows-of-corner-house-in-riga-smashed.a583728/"
  ],
  "extra": {
    "category_raw": "Vandalism",
    "extra": {
      "extra": {
        "extra": {
          "evidence": [
            "Article reports direct statements from guides, police, and museum officials.",
            "Reference to ongoing investigations by Riga East Department of the State Police.",
            "Details about threats being received and previous similar incidents."
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "fifth_column_countries": [
    "LV"
  ],
  "follow_up_by_country": [],
  "headline": "Windows of 'Corner House' in Rīga smashed",
  "location_text": "Corner House (former KGB building), Riga",
  "media_assets": [
    {
      "description": "Screenshot capture",
      "type": "screenshot",
      "url": "/media/event_735_1763936716_0822b9e1.jpg"
    }
  ],
  "notes": "Corner House in ??Riga attacked. Windows smashed, ??Russian threats reported",
  "schema_version": "v1",
  "screenshot_count": 1,
  "sources": [
    "https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/crime/15.01.2025-windows-of-corner-house-in-riga-smashed.a583728/"
  ],
  "summary_short": "Windows at the Latvian Occupation Museum's Corner House in Riga were smashed, with ongoing police investigations and prior threats reported. Organized crime has been ruled out.",
  "url": "https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/crime/15.01.2025-windows-of-corner-house-in-riga-smashed.a583728/"
}

{
  "5th Column of Russians Inside (which countries)": "LV",
  "Attack Type": "Vandalism",
  "Borders Including Sea, Air,  Violation or Sabotage (which countries)": "",
  "Continuous? (e.g. Jammers)": "",
  "Country (FI;EE;LV;LT;PL;BSR;Air)\nSeparated by Semicolon": "LV",
  "Date": "15-Jan-25",
  "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": "Corner House in ??Riga attacked. Windows smashed, ??Russian threats reported",
  "Political Disruptions w/ Laws to Favor Kremlin (which countries)": "",
  "Russian-Belarus Terrorist Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL)": "Corner House in ??Riga attacked. Windows smashed, Russian threats reported",
  "Russian-Belarus Terrorist Event (FI-EE-LV-LT-PL) REF LINK": "https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/crime/15.01.2025-windows-of-corner-house-in-riga-smashed.a583728/",
  "Screen Snapshot": "",
  "Screen Snapshots": "",
  "Type Dropdown": "",
  "Where?\n(Air, Land, Sea)": ""
}