{"id":528568,"date":"2026-03-26T13:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T10:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=528568"},"modified":"2026-03-26T13:57:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T10:57:22","slug":"details-emerge-of-teen-detention-in-vilnius-over-vilnia-is-ours-graffiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/details-emerge-of-teen-detention-in-vilnius-over-vilnia-is-ours-graffiti","title":{"rendered":"Details Emerge Of Teen Detention In Vilnius Over \u201cVilnia Is Ours\u201d Graffiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Lithuanian broadcaster <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lrt.lt\/naujienos\/lietuvoje\/2\/2879156\/provokacijas-rengianti-nepilnameti-vilniuje-sulaike-praeivis-tokie-dalykai-baisus\">LRT<\/a> has revealed details of the detention of a teenager over the inscription \u201cVilnia nasha\u201d (\u201cVilnia is ours\u201d), which took place this morning in Vilnius. Police had not previously disclosed details of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>It turned out that the teenager was detained by a passerby, who shared the story with the channel. In the report, he is identified as Pauliaus (name changed).<\/p>\n<p>According to him, on his way to work he noticed an unusual scene near a pedestrian bridge.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cI saw a person squatting and doing something. I didn\u2019t pay much attention at first, but as I got closer, I noticed someone in a hood, dressed in black, who was taking photos,\u201d<\/i> Pauliaus said.<\/p>\n<p>He then realized the person was photographing a Cyrillic inscription. He had already heard about similar provocative graffiti, which, according to Lithuanian law enforcement, are carried out on instructions from Russian and Belarusian special services to sow discord. Several such inscriptions have recently appeared in the Lithuanian capital.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cI asked: \u2018What are you doing here?\u2019 He looked at me, realized he had been caught, and ran,\u201d<\/i> Pauliaus continued.<\/p>\n<p>The man chased the teenager. On Gediminas Avenue, he called for help from passersby. Eventually, the fleeing suspect stumbled, allowing the man to detain him.<\/p>\n<p>According to Paulius, the boy said he was only 14, began to cry, and apologized.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cHe said he didn\u2019t want to draw anything, that he did it because he was threatened: if he didn\u2019t write those words and photograph them, his house would be burned down,\u201d<\/i> the man said.<\/p>\n<p>Police who arrived at the scene said the teenager was already known to them. Pauliaus also noted that the boy spoke Lithuanian without an accent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuanian broadcaster LRT has revealed details of the detention of a teenager over the inscription \u201cVilnia nasha\u201d (\u201cVilnia is ours\u201d), which took place this morning in Vilnius. Police had not previously disclosed details of the incident. It turned out that the teenager was detained by a passerby, who shared the story with the channel. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":528567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69c5111688af7.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Details Emerge Of Teen Detention In Vilnius Over \u201cVilnia Is Ours\u201d Graffiti"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}