Moscow lawyer Dmitry Vinogradov, accused of murdering six people, was ordered to undergo a psychiatric examination. This was reported on November 20 on the website of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.

The accused is being examined at the Serbsky State Scientific Center for Social and Forensic Psychiatry. The timing of the examination is not specified.

29-year-old Vinogradov lived in Moscow with his mother and father. Due to a childhood head injury, he was diagnosed with organic depression and took medication. In the summer of 2012, he abruptly stopped taking the drugs, although this is strictly contraindicated (the dose must be reduced gradually, in some cases over years).

Four years ago, Vinogradov began working as a lawyer at the Protek holding (Rigla pharmacy chain). In 2011, Vinogradov liked a girl from the economics department. The girl had a fiancé, so after several trips to the movies, she refused to continue her relationship with Vinogradov. After that, she told her colleagues that the lawyer had shared strange thoughts with her. They started laughing at him. Vinogradov concluded that his colleagues persuaded the girl to leave him.

Early in the morning of November 7, the lawyer posted a “Manifesto” on the social network VKontakte , in which he admitted his hatred of humanity. Then he took two carbines, which he purchased in the spring of 2012, and went to work. He shot five colleagues, as well as a man who came for an interview. Another girl was injured but survived. Vinogradov had 230 rounds of ammunition with him, but at the first attempt to reload the carbines he was detained.

After the incident, the Izvestia newspaper took a comment from the head of the licensing and permitting service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Leonid Vedenov, who participated in the preparation of amendments to the law “On Weapons.” The amendments have nothing to do with carbines and Vinogradov (they relate to traumatic weapons, drunk people, and people under 21 years of age). However, many bloggers perceived the publication of Izvestia as “a tightening of the law because of Vinogradov.”

became widespread After this, a conspiracy theory , according to which Vinogradov does not exist at all, and his story was invented specifically to promote amendments to the law. The authors of the theory claim that neither materials from the funerals of the dead nor reports from the hospital about the wounded were released to the media (although in fact, both were reported to media the ) .

Moscow lawyer-murderer sent for psychiatric examination