"How can you be afraid of children?"

Daniil Turovsky’s report from the Red Strike, where teenagers shot the police

On November 14, the two teenagers who were ruining from the house in the village of Strugi Krasny Pskov region locked themselves in a private house and shot from it - then just in the air, then in a police car. In parallel, they conducted a video broadcast of what is happening. The house was blocked, the police began to storm. After him, law enforcement agencies announced that teenagers committed suicide. The Special Corps of Medusa Daniil Turovsky went to the village to find out what happened there.

The house in which the adolescents kept the siege in the village of Strugi Reds called the object.

One of the first to hear this word Lyudmila Alekseeva, a neighbor. On Monday, November 14, 2016, she woke up at about 8:00. Still lying in bed, she heard shots. Not understanding where they come from, she went outside to clear the snow in front of the house. At about nine in the morning she was called by a policeman passing by. “Go home, get up, do not approach the windows and do not look towards the object,” he advised.

Lyudmila hid in the house, but sometimes she looked out into the street. She noticed that after nine in the morning the police began to accumulate on the street - every hour they became more and more. Soon she learned from them that in a neighboring house a certain man allegedly holds a hostage and shoots at the police and dogs on the street. After eleven, shots began to be heard more often. By one o'clock in the afternoon, one of the policemen trodden in a snowdrift next to Sarai Lyudmila Trop. Because of the barn, the object was clearly visible-it stood literally in fifteen to twenty steps, it was only necessary to go through the garden. Between themselves, the police, according to Lyudmila, discussed the opportunity to start assault on this side.

Lyudmila knew that there is usually no one in the house in winter. The family, who bought it about five years ago, came there only in the summer and used it as a cottage. They usually did not leave the site, the owner of the house - the stepfather of Katerina - she remembered that he was "evil as a bear." At the same time, the house itself looks better than most of the village: it has two floors, next to it - a bath, a well and specially planted Christmas trees, around - a continuous fence. In the strings of the Reds, many houses are generally empty: the local bakery and the sewing factory closed, and in search of work many residents moved to Pskov or went there with watch. In neighboring houses next to the object that day there was no one but Lyudmila, so no police had to evacuate.

Escape

Fifteen -year -old Denis Muravyov and Katerina Vlasova met for about seven months. They studied together in neighboring classes of the ninth parallel of one of the Pskov schools. They have many joint photographs on social networks. Under one, laid out on November 9, 2016, Denis wrote: “It’s sad that everything went like that, only I was fine with you.” In the service of ASK.FM questions, the teenager, answering questions about the relationship, said several times that he has “zoom”. Katerina has a lot of selfies and videos with actor Dylan O` Brain from the series “Wolf”, it is signed by a hundred teenage groups.

They both grew up in families with stepfather, they had problems with their studies - as Natalia Sokolova, the Commissioner for the Rights of the Pskov Region, said , they showed “demonstrative behavior”.

Both did not have a relationship with parents. Shortly before escaping, Katerina was punished for coming home too late - about nine in the evening. After that, the girl tried to take ahead of the night to her friend, and when she was not allowed, she escaped. She was found with her friend, returned home and “specifically beaten”, she had a “bruise on my head” - she talked about this on November 14 in one of the broadcasts in Periscope. Denis said at the same time that his parents were “*******” [tired].

When they were later asked in the chat, did they feel sorry for their parents, they answered: “Why didn’t they feel sorry for us? They never spared us. ”

On Friday, November 12, Katerina and Denis withdrew money from her parents' cards, sat on a minibus and drove 80 kilometers to the city of Struga Krasny, where the house of the Freight's stepfather was located. They had no keys with them, they opened one of the windows next to the front door with a knife - "it was just necessary to insert a knife, down and upside down, and then into a corner." The glass broke, and the teenagers climbed inside. In the house, they opened one of the safe, where they found a double -barreled hunting rifle, a gun, another gun and cartridges.

In the house, which will later be called an object, teenagers spent the weekend. There, they, apparently, repainted their hair: ants from dark to bright, Vlasov, on the contrary. They dressed in a different way: Denis walked in camouflage trousers and a sports jacket several sizes, Katerina in sports black clothes.

On Monday morning - judging by them in broadcasting - they were found by grandmother and mother Vlasova. The girl met them with a knife in her hands. “It somehow happened that they cut my hands. Denis calmly told them to leave, they are generally zero reaction, ”she said in a broadcast later. Denis “freak” and shot from a pneumatic rifle to Katerina’s mother, falling in the leg.

After that, a police car came to the house. Teenagers shot him with a hunting rifle with a buckshot. The police ran out of the car and disappeared.

Siege

The next few hours, teenagers wandered from room to room, actively updating social networks. They broadcast what was happening in PerisCope (now the records are deleted, but available in Utube, the "Medusa" made a decoding of two broadcasts); Katerina published on her page on VKontakte the status that "it would be beautiful to leave," and a little later said: "I am not hostage, I, of my own free will."

Denis published a photograph with guns, condoms and walkie -talkies on his Instagram; Later - a picture of a shot police officer with the signature of “relaxing with my beloved” and a joint selfie with Katerina with the signature “Darova“ Black Dolphin ”” (name of the prison for life convicts). In one of the broadcasts, teenagers discussed for several minutes how many years they would receive when they were arrested.

The teenagers did not say any requirements; Basically, in broadcasts, they simply talked about the hopelessness of their position.

Schoolchildren continued to periodically go to the loggia and shoot at a neighboring house, fence, police car. Katerina invited Denis to shoot a dog running in the yard across the road. Before that, Muravyov admitted to the murder of two dogs.

At some point, teenagers held a house tour for their viewers of Periscope. “This is my stepfather’s dacha, he is a special forces, an ephezbashnik, a hunter,” said Katerina. Denis showed a photo collage on which Katerina's stepfather presses his hand to Putin. Sitting on the sofa under the flag of the Airborne Forces, they ate from a bowl of quick -cooking. Denis offered to run. “This is useless,” Katerina said.

Muravyov noticed that they were not watched by many spectators as they expected. Vlasova showed on a film laid out on the floor. “Scattered for blood, for corpses,” she said. - Soon we will be stormed, we will shoot back - it will be fun! Let's make Molotov's cocktail? " Denis shot on TV, he began to smoke; Then the teenager threw him out the window.

Katerina, singing a funny song, showed the audience a shot police car. “In short, the tire is broken, the glass is pierced, even two glasses are pierced! She laughed. - Che, zone, do not give up? " Then a shot rang out in the broadcast, and she ran out to the loggia to the boyfriend. "Come on to the cop car again?" - the girl suggested and took the gun. "Lord, how can you be afraid of children?" She said and shot at a police car.

Katerina touched Denis's hair, squatting next to him. "I did not make you styling, die - so beautiful!" She said.

In a few hours of siege with Muravyov and Vlasova, relatives were connected several times. In one of the broadcasts, Katerina read out an SMS message from Denis's mother that they stop shooting, "it will cost expensive." In another broadcast, she said that Denis's mother called and asked them to leave the building. “I don’t want to go out, because there will be a complete trash,” the girl said.

In PerisCope, they talked with one of the friends who wrote to them in the chat. He asked them several times what they are going to do next, and said that "I will miss you." Their other classmate wrote in the chat that they were watching the “whole class”. Katerina was amused.

The teenagers showed bottles of alcohol several times and explained that it was cold in the house - there were no firewood for the fireplace, the matches were over.

When the audience asked them who they killed, Katerina replied: "Besides dogs, no one for now." Denis admitted that perhaps he got from a gun with a buckshot in police officers. “I see the cops-just bah-bah in them,” he described shots. “Bonnie and Clyde, *****,” Katerina added.

A resident of the village told Medusa that by 13:00 the police blocked Kudryavtsev Street, on which there was a captured house. Around the same time, according to witnesses, shots from home stopped.

At about 14:00 in the group of the village in VKontakte there was a first message that "some kind of psycho shoots, something our village was walking around, the police on the spot."

During the broadcasts, adolescents said several times that they have no other option, how to surrender. “If we don’t give up, they will kill us,” Denis said. He said that he handed over all the weapons - threw it out of the window: guns, knives, cartridges. “We cannot commit suicide,” said Katerina.

At the same time, psychologists communicated with them, the source of the Pskov province reported . Meduza about the work of negotiators in civilian clothes was told by witnesses from a cordon. Apparently, then her class teacher talked with Vlasova on the phone.

According to the resident of the village, at about two o’clock in the afternoon employees of the special detachment of the quick response of the Russian Guard in the Pskov region in full combat uniform arrived. They did not come close to the house, staying a few dozen meters from it. The witness claims that Sobr immediately after arrival began to study the possibilities for the assault. The Pskov Province is sure that the Russian Guard forced the assault instead of continuing negotiations. At the same time, in neighboring houses there were no residents and adolescents did not pose a danger to others.

During negotiations, the police gave teenagers forty minutes “to think” and the exit from the building. Katerina commented on this: "We are forced to give up, and we are accustomed to the fact that the Russians do not give up."

Storm

Shortly before the assault on Vlasov and Muravyov, they stopped smiling and laughing (the broadcast lasted all this time). The girl lit a cigarette - one of the two of the remaining three packs. “Scary-passionate,” she said. Denis straightened her hair, gently laying behind her ear. "For what?" He asked. “For you,” she said. “It was painful to see how you were sad. I understood that I was a guy, I could not provide you with [safety, calm], ”he said. “I would like to say the last words,” said Catherine. “We have done too much business.”

They discussed that the house was surrounded by special forces. Their last broadcast was cut off in words that "cops are standing and inactive."

The residents of the village, who watched the police work, told Medusa that the Sobr employees were storming through the courtyards and the back of the house. Eight people participated in it in complete combat uniforms. The police pointed out that the assault began after "many hours of negotiations did not bring anything and the children stopped in touch."

Witnesses did not hear shots during the assault. One of them, standing next to the cordon, said that he had heard several cotton-the police reported that light-shum grenades were used during the assault. Sobr employees who entered the house found teenagers dead with firearms, reported the Investigative Committee: first Denis shot Katerina, then himself. SK specified that the police did not open fire on teenagers.

On the afternoon on Tuesday, November 15, the Investigative Committee distributed the operational shooting of the consequences of the assault. The video shows large spots and puddles of blood on the couch on which teenagers recorded the video; Their outerwear and weapons are scattered around the room. The bodies of Vlasova and Muravyov were taken away by ambulance to the morgue, investigators appointed forensic and posthumous psychological and psychiatric examination.

After the assault

The next morning, the residents of the village are approaching the house where everything happened to consider the bullet holes in the fence. "Well, now, has it come to our village with a madhouse?" - says one man. “Have you heard? Yesterday, the husband strangled his wife and left six children, ”the other answers.

At the gate of the house in the snow, glass from a police car lay in the snow. A strip of blood drops begins next to them - it stretches fifty meters towards the place where the police hid.

The Pskov prosecutor's office began a check on illegal storage of weapons in the house. The agency recognized the actions of the SOBR during the assault. The Commissioner for the Rights of the Child of the Pskov Region Natalia Sokolova at a meeting on Tuesday stated that “one should not allow the heroization of this event” among schoolchildren.

Classmates Katerina and Denis refused to communicate with Medusa. Since yesterday evening, they remember friends on their pages on VKontakte. One of them wrote : “You were always honest and good to me. Supported in difficult times. You knew how to amuse and was always bold. ” “I miss you so ... I don’t know why you did this, why did you do all this. We survived so much together, so many funny and sad moments, ”another wrote . The VKontakte administration blocked the opportunity to comment on the pages of Denis and Katerina themselves, but social networks continue to send them virtual gifts. Basically - baseball caps with the inscription "Make America Great Again".

Daniil Turovsky

Pskov