FORENSIC RESEARCH OF INCENDIARY BOTTLES
The article deals with the possibility and specifics of obtaining forensically significant information in the examination of incendiary bottles (Molotov cocktails), their parts and burning flammable mixtures. The objects of examination were incendiary bottles, their fragments and parts of the igniting device, subjected to the exposure of high temperature during the burning of flammable liquids. A comprehensive examination of incendiary bottle included the production of the objects of research; conducting fire tests simulating the use of incendiary bottle in law violating actions; examination of the place of burning, the collecting of evidence and their further research: fingerprint, biological and chemical analysis. There are some bottle fragments not exposed to the fire, which carry traces having forensic significance. In almost all cases, it is possible to determine the direction of throwing of bottles. It is possible to detect fingerprints and human biological traces suitable for identification on bottles parts after the fire as well as the to determine the initial composition of an incendiary mixture using fluorescence spectroscopy, gas chromatography with flame ionization or mass spectrometry detector. The most informative for forensic examination fragments of the bottles were determined. The influence of various factors on the possibility to detect traces was considered in the article.