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Swamp and forgotten
A report from the hospital, where Mikhail Kosenko is forcibly treated, and from the Zamoskvoretsky court, where the second “swamp process” comes
In the next month or two, one of the defendants in the “case of May 6” Mikhail Kosenko will be released
After two years of imprisonment, Kosenko can be released home, but no one is going to punish the police who beat him with batons. Moscow, Bolotnaya Square, May 6, 2012 /Photo: From the materials of the criminal case /rusplt.ru
| * “Case of four” - the continuation of the trial in the “case of riots on May 6, 2012” |
To the village of Troitsky near Moscow in the Chekhovsky district - 50 kilometers of the journey. While you are going, for some reason you think that the whole last year the process in the “case of May 6” and its defendants were in the focus of public attention, and today they were on the periphery. As, however, the new “swamp process” in the Zamoskvoretsky court - in the “case of four”*. Why? What has changed in the country for this year?.
The road leads us to a high gray fence with barbed wire - this is a psychiatric hospital No. 5, where Mikhail Kosenko was brought a month ago from the psychiatric department of Butyrka prison. You can get there, for the fence, only by special permits.
We go through the entrance and find ourselves in a large park - ate, birch, flowers, neatly tonsured lawns. No one, except for the employees of the hospital, is allowed to go into residential buildings (there are only 17 of them, and they stretch as much as 4 kilometers).
Meetings with doctors and sick are held in an administrative building - a three -story brick building with a gilded church dome. On the third floor is the Orthodox Church.
Not dangerous
"Have you come to talk about Mikhail Kosenko?" - The deputy chief physician for the medical part Yuri Kaganovich converts affably to the lawyer Dmitry Aivazyan. He invites Aivazyan and the correspondent of The New Times (whom the lawyer presented as his secretary) in a big office:
“Such as Kosenko, according to such“ Polits ”(as Dr. Kaganovich denotes a political case), we no longer have. 87% of our patients committed crimes against the individual. They have been sitting for years, for example, there is one patient who has been treated for 21 years. But according to Kosenko, we recently conducted an expanded commission and determined: he does not pose a public danger. It can go home, live normally, work, get married. ”
According to Dr. Kaganovich, the medical consultation sent his opinion to the Chekhov City Court, putting a letter to him in April with a letter of lawyer Ayvazyan with a request to “submit Kosenko to a commission to change a medical measure from a stationary for outpatient treatment”. In simple terms, the lawyer asked Kosenko to go home so that he could take medicines under the supervision of a doctor - as he did before he was arrested, kept two years in prison and eventually recognized as insane.
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“Kosenko does not pose a public danger. Can go home, live normally, get married, work "
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“Have you heard that Kosenko’s sister wrote a letter to President Putin and asked him to be transferred to outpatient treatment?” - asks the lawyer Aivazyan by the doctor Kaganovich.
"No, I have not heard."
| ** cm. "New Gazeta" dated May 19, 2014 |
Aivazyan shows the “New Gazeta” ** with a letter to Ksenia Kosenko in the first lane.
"A! Now everything is clear to me, ”exclaims Kaganovich. - After all, they called me from the sky -high heights yesterday - Ella Pamfilova, Commissioner for Human Rights. And in general, for several days, everyone calls and calls different people ... They allegedly want Kosenko. And I don’t want good to him? "
The doctor is getting more and more: about the psychiatric hospital, they talk a lot of bad, and we, they say, have not been using shock methods for a long time, and we have no punitive psychiatry, as they write about it in newspapers.
"So, Kosenko is not dangerous for society and the judge will let him go?" - Having seized the moment, the correspondent of The New Times asks.
“What is your curious secretary,” Kaganovich laughs. “Yes, the judge will consider his case in June or in July.”
Monsters
We go to the reception room. The young nurse in a blue robe leads Mikhail Kosenko and sits behind him.
| *** “Koshkin House” - a psychiatric hospital in a bottle pre -trial detention center. |
Michael has changed a lot since we saw in the Koshkin House ***. He lost weight, shaved his mustache, it seems that he was younger.
“There are beds and mattresses here is better than in Butyrka, food is better, dates with relatives - at least every day,” he willingly answers our questions. “But there are a lot of people here.” In the department - 73 people, in my ward - 12. You can’t lie on the bed when you want, you can’t drink tea. Here they are watching you all the time: do not do it, do not do it ... After two years in the prison, where I sat in small cameras, such a crowded one is difficult to transfer. True, there is no one to communicate with, but there is one friend. ”
With whom Mikhail communicates, we do not ask. But immediately I recall only Dr. Kaganovich’s story about patients, who, like Kosenko, are contained in a general branch: “I call them monsters and write down their stories in a notebook: for example, the young man took off the skin from the girl and raped her on the balcony for a week, and her mother sat in the apartment and was afraid to call the police. Another case: at the station, a man, with all, took out the insides from a woman. He is also a monster. "
Frost on the skin ...
Fifteen minutes, allotted on a date with Mikhail, run quickly, Ayvazyan’s lawyer encourages his client - says that there was not a long time left - two to three months.
“They told me - I’ll be here for six months,” Michael does not believe.
"What will you do when you find yourself at home?"
“I will take pills. In general, you need to rehabilitate. After all ... "
Psychiatric hospital No. 5 is the largest specialized institution of a closed type with a territory of 12 hectares. Built in 1907 for mentally ill especially dangerous criminals. Today it contains more than two thousand patients, although it is designed for a thousand. All this "army" mentally ill is treated, fed and guarded by five thousand people. For the Chekhovsky district of the Moscow Region, hospital No. 5 is a city -forming enterprise.
