mo4ch:>Artist to arsonist: Scrotum-nailing anti-Putin stuntman sentenced for setting French bank on fire | Mo4ch News

A shock artist from Russia, praised in the West as a vivid Kremlin critic, has been sentenced to three years in prison for arson in France, but will walk free. The controversial ‘activist’ also received a hefty fine for his stunt.Pyotr Pavlensky garnered international attention and support for being a vocal government critic. His shock stunts, including nailing his scrotum to the Red Square pavement and several acts of creative vandalism, made him famous in the West.Pavlensky’s notoriety received a boost when he was fined 481,500 rubles (€6,500) by a Russian court for setting fire to the entrance of the Russian security service FSB. No prison sentence was issued though.Apparently, that was the last straw for the notorious stuntman as he fled the ‘oppressive’ Russian regime and settled down in France. But French life became too idyllic (or miserable?) for Pavlensky, as he and his partner Oksana Shalygina repeated his arson stunt at the door of the Bank of France in October 2017.French …