Xenophobic conflict in an Izhevsk school

On October 22, 2010, a 12-year-old 6th grade student of one of the local schools hanged himself in Izhevsk. By one of the versions, the reason for this decision was a xenophobic conflict at school. (Boy half Azeri).

According to relatives, the boy was often called names in the yard because of his "non-Slavic appearance" and threatened. On October 21, a schoolboy and his friend quarreled with seventh graders. And the next day, according to classmates, the same the older students threatened the boy and then beat him.

The parents of the deceased schoolboy found in the pocket of a torn jacket the bottom of the glass bottles.

The senior investigator of the SO for the Ustinovsky district of Izhevsk of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the UR stated that, according to the investigation, " no one is to blame for the child's suicide " and " national there was no conflict .

Relatives are going to submit documents to the prosecutor's office demanding additional verification.

Commenting on the news about the incident, the Komsomolskaya truth" reported that " seventh-graders hardly realized that in fact means the word "chock". For them, it's just a set of abusive letters. Because at bright boys there simply can’t be a real reason to hate blackheads boys ."

Sources

• Kamenskaya Y. A sixth-grader hanged himself because his peers called him a chock? // TVNZ. 2010. November 3rd.
• Kamenskaya Yu. Suicide in Izhevsk: was a 12-year-old Azerbaijani threatened by Russian peers? // Komsomolskaya Pravda (Izhevsk). 2010. November 2.