Death on the "live"

The road from Pskov to the strings of red is similar to a fairy tale - a thick forest, powerful spruce, covered with dense flakes of snow. Only the fifteen -year -old Denis and Katya, who fled from their parents to the small district center, which are 70 kilometers from their hometown, were enormous with this beauty. The teenagers made their way to an empty house on an empty street, lived in it for three days, and then, having opened two safe weapons, they began to shoot at the police who came to look for the fugitives. Denis and Katya died - according to the official version , they killed themselves. “The Russians do not give up,” they repeated many times on the smartphone camera, broadcasting everything that was happening on the Internet.

You will not accidentally get to the red chips. The urban-type settlement lies away from the St. Petersburg-Kyiv highway, and the trains are now almost not going. The strings are more focused on St. Petersburg than on Pskov - if people leave, then not to the regional center, but there. And many are leaving, because there are, in fact, work in the plugs.

The houses who have left are either empty or rented out, or are used as cottages. On Kudryavtsev Street, where on November 14, two teenagers fired at the police, there are a lot of such. It is not surprising that Denis and Katya lived there for several days unnoticed. As they say in the video: "Three days lived normally, perfectly simple. They lived calmly together, did not touch anyone."

There are no traces here anywhere

Lyubov Gerasimova , a native of Street, holds an excursion along Kudryavtseva Street:

"You see-the light of the alarm is: people left. Here the house is good-there were also normal, adequate people, left for St. Petersburg. The next house is removed by a young family from rural areas. This street is practically uninhabited. Look, the gates are all covered with snow, there are no traces here."

Snow is trampled only around a red fence from a profiled sheet, in several places through the perforated. You do not need to be an expert of ballistics to understand that these are traces of bullets. The same - through the road, in a green metal fence. The window of the house, which is hidden behind that fence, is also covered with a network of cracks.

The house in which teenagers died

“The house is opposite to which they shot-there are also visitors from St. Petersburg, I don’t know them,” says Lyubov Viktorovna.

I thought all the time: Lord, what is happening, what kind of chicago this is happening with us

In fact, she knows almost everyone in the plugs, because for many years she worked as a journalist in a local newspaper, and now-a deputy of the district assembly. He says that the first thing that I thought about when I learned about shooting: this is where in our quiet town there may be a house "with such an arsenal and without alarm." Then, according to the video frames, the love of Gerasimov immediately recognized him - this is the house of Vladimir Vlasov, a local entrepreneur who died about a year and a half ago. His sons live in Pskov, and one of the heirs used the house in the plugs as a cottage. And he held in him two safe with weapons that the stepdaughter Katya with his friend Denis opened.

The availability of this weapon is what was dumbfounded by Lyubov Viktorovna most of all: “I thought: Lord, what is happening, what kind of chicago we are doing ... I began to call those who have children of such an age.“ That's what our children? ” -“ No, we are all right. ”And the guys are indeed not ours, but Pskov. If it were our children, there would be information at once ...”

"Children are zombie"

Like everyone with whom I talked in the plugs, Lyubov Gerasimova found out about an emergency in her hometown from the Internet - with regard to information, between the district center and the metropolis, it turns out that there is no difference. Eyewitnesses of shooting at the police turns out that it was not. Only the children who played on the street learned about what was happening from somewhere and were going to see.

Lyubov Gerasimova

“We were here when all this happened. We stood there, we weren’t letting us further. Well, we only saw how the police stood here, and that’s it,” 12-year-old Nikita told us. Unlike most adults, he was glad to talk with reporters. "Will they show me in the news? Will I be famous?"

“I don’t even know how to relate to this,” Nikita replies, sharing his impressions of everything that happened.

Just a day earlier in the plugs, another tragedy occurred, which no one broadcast online: in a prosperous large family, the husband strangled his wife, leaving six children without a mother. This murder shocked even more local residents than police shooting. Both stories are similar to two sides of the same medal, two parts of one tragedy - about a modern Russian family. The difference is only in public resonance.

Denis and Katya managed to make their story as public as possible. Their direct video broadcast of everything that happened on November 14 on the Internet gave this tragedy an all -Russian scale. Residents of the Reds Street watched the events unfolded, along with the rest of the Russians - on the Internet or on TV, not having an advantage of the degree of awareness.

Everyone here says that they would like to know what happened on that terrible day

And on the contrary, it was in the plugs that I heard the largest number of different versions and rumors. There were rumors that in the house with Denis and Katya was another girl, local. Allegedly, since Katya came here to the cottage, she could have been familiar with someone. There were no confirmations to these rumors. The information was also not confirmed that in the composition of the outfit, which was the first to arrive at Kudryavtsev and immediately hit the bullets, was an intern. There are no trainees in the Strysnensky police.

They also say that a grandmother, the widow of the owner of the house, supposedly brought them products to the children. Lyubov Vlasova really lives in chips, works as a nurse in the hospital. But to find her and find out for sure whether it was or not, it didn’t work out - the locals showed solidarity and refused to inform the reporters her address. At the same time, everyone here says that they would like to know what happened on that terrible day. “We thought that from you, from the press, we will learn the truth,” says the saleswoman of a grocery stall, who began the conversation with the phrase: “No, I will not report anything to reporters.”

The videos recorded on a neighboring street, they watched and discussed together: "Everyone has shock"

Sergei Reznik , who lives on a neighboring street, is generally inclined to see the root cause of the tragedy on the Internet and someone’s “machinations”. He passed by and stopped to say hello to Viktorovna's love (in cities such as Strugi, every second passerby is a good friend). We ask if he understands how this could happen in their city. Sergey shakes his head.

The “fifth column” “works” in our country, of course ... ”he argues.“ They are zombie children. They have not just decided, prepared, I think. ”

Sergei Anatolyevich is the former military man and entrepreneur himself, he knew the owner of the house and his son, says that both were worthy people. He does not believe that his stepfather could offend the girl - another hearing that is discussed on the Internet. Sergei Reznik has the son of the same problematic, adolescence. The videos recorded on a neighboring street, they watched and discussed together: "Everyone has shock."

“Children are brought up by the example of parents, because this is the most important thing in the family. What kind of relationship is such a child, in essence,” he comments.

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Death on the "live"

"If you give up, there will be tin"

“I don’t understand how it could be allowed when all the intentions were known,” says Lyubov Gerasimova.

Nobody seems to understand this. Everyone I spoke with, watched the notes and saw frightened, confused children who decided to play Bonnie and Claid.

Denis and Katya understood that they had come to a standstill, and did not see the way out: “If we give up, it would be tin. We have done a lot of business. We broke the windows. We smashed the cops to the fluff. We broke the house. We shot the leg. They took off the shoulder straps. They spoiled the property. But they didn’t kill anyone.”

Fired by a police car. Frame from the video of dead teenagers

All this cannot be called good behavior. But this cannot be called a crime that is punishable by death.

There was no professional psychologist as part of special forces. In fact, the negotiator became the mother of Denis

According to official information, after several hours in a police siege, Denis first shot his friend, then committed suicide. By that time, they threw one gun along with a traumatic gun from the window. But since the owner of the arsenal - the stepfather of Katya - was next to the police, the security forces, according to the official version, knew for sure that the guys had a second gun in their arms and quite a few cartridges.

A source in the police claims that the decision to enter the house was made when the besiegers came to the conclusion that the children were no longer alive. Such a conclusion was made after even the semblance of communication that managed to establish. That is, the children no longer shot at the police in response to any attempt to contact and finally stopped answering calls. As we managed to find out, there was no professional psychologist as part of a special forces. In fact, the negotiator became Denis's mother. But then she lost contact with them: "So, you need to understand that something is wrong there."

Red plugs, police department

It is claimed that the police did not use weapons. Before entering the house, they threw a light-shum grenade, but only to "distract an armed person." In the house, the special forces found two bodies with gunshot wounds; Fragments of operational shooting have already been made public.

The conviction that children in any case were going to commit suicide, helps the Pskov security forces to reconcile with the failure of the operation

Why failed to establish contact, why could not be convinced of the children to give up, how did negotiations go - through threats, promises? - With these issues, I went to the local police station. I went out with nothing. The chief of the Strugokraznensky police department, Sergei Petrov, personally managed the operation, but sent us to the press service of the Investigative Committee for comments. “The only thing I can tell you: we did everything so that people do not suffer. To save the lives of police officers and save lives to adolescents,” says Sergey Nikolaevich. “But they did not need them.”

It seems that the conviction that the children in any case were going to commit suicide, helps the Pskov security forces come to terms with the failure of the operation. And such a finale cannot be called otherwise than failure - even if all job descriptions were executed exactly. When asked why in the state of the Ministry of Internal Affairs there was no specialist who could negotiate - not even with criminals, but with ordinary adolescents scared and evil, a clear answer now, it seems, no one can in power structures.

The tragedy in the strings of the Reds, so well documented by the victims themselves, leaves many questions

On November 17, it became known that in relation to police officers who participated in the detention of Pskov adolescents who were barricaded in a country house in the village of Strugi Reds, and then committed suicide, a criminal case was instituted about abuse of authority. This was reported by the source of "Open Russia". There is no official confirmation of this information.

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How Katya and Denis were buried

The tragedy in the strings of the Reds, so well documented by the victims themselves, leaves many questions. The residents of the Reds Strike themselves say that this story, by pure chance, occurred in their city. In fact, she can repeat herself anywhere.

Was it possible to prevent a tragedy? The opinion of the psychologist, the author of books on child psychology Olga Makhovskaya .

- The tragedy in Pskov looks especially terrible, because from the outside it seems that nothing portended her. In the video that got on the Internet, everything is very similar to the game in Bonnie and Claid, and I just can’t believe that in a few minutes these young man and the girl will commit suicide. If it really is confirmed that it happened, and they did not die during the assault, can this somehow be rationally trying to explain, this act? Should I try to do it at all?

When you are young, tense and full of strength and carefully peer into your life, then death is especially acute

- It is obvious that this was a situational decision. Otherwise, there would be some traces on the Internet, in correspondence that would foresee this misfortune. Although the theme of death and some enchanting in the public of the departure, such a loud “exhaust” is a topic that is executed by adolescents and amazes their own imagination. Because when you are young, tense and full of strength and peer into your life carefully, then death is especially acute. Youth and death are poorly combined. But still, the escape itself, as we know on the numerous shoots of adolescents, is, as a rule, the already accumulated conflict is behind this. And what got into the staff, and the fact that the situation was so resolved, it would seem very quickly, does not mean at all that there is no deep roots of this story that it was simple and occurred by negligence only.

Olga Makhovskaya

Obviously, schoolchildren had a bad relationship with parents, and this is also a typical teenage plot. But none of the parents thought about such a development of events, expecting to simply separate teenagers, to pull everyone to their side. I was struck by such a dangerous rhyme in what happened - more recently, we discussed the flayer from Khabarovsk, and the girl, one of those who shot at the animals, was from a family of police officers. Here is one of the participants in the tragedy, the deceased girl, she had a special forces stepfather. And I get the impression that, despite the fact that parents, in principle, have strict relations with children in adolescence, they acquire especially cruel forms when the father does not know compromises and, as they say, grabs the weapon himself. Then they shoot in response.

- Lev Schlosberg wrote that "when a person really wants to commit suicide, he does it silently and probably, and when he talks about it aloud and loudly, he wants to be saved." Did these children want them to save them? Do you agree with such a question?

The worst thing for them, which flickered in the text, was that they would be separated and unheated in different cities and schools

-They would like them to be prompted by some reasonable solution, but they were looking for an answer on the network when a broadcast was broadcast in the periscope mobile application, periodically turned to those who appeared there: "What to do?" But no one wanted to take part in this discussion. And there was no one to ask them more. Both parents and police were determined, and this is not a matter of negotiations. Probably, they thought, throwing the gun out the window, demonstrating that they were unarmed and non -hazardous, show that they were ready to surrender, but were afraid of the consequences. The worst thing for them, which flickered in the text, was that they would be separated and unheated in different cities and schools. Even the prison of the prison or some fines did not flash, they did not expect such an outcome. What is happening with adolescents when they demonstrate their readiness for decisive action, but in fact they are afraid and grab each other out of fear.

Of course, in this state, adolescents never understand the consequences of their actions. And they are ready to perform some demarche. Usually for a short time, these are short shoots. Then they return, then some conversations take place and so on. Many are running for two or three days. But I think that this is a trap, the psychological, among other things, in which adults drove them, in fact, leaving them no chance. The motives of death, I repeat, sound in adolescents. But this is an attempt to study the topic itself, come to terms with the fact that such a wonderful life can end suddenly. Because it still happens. On young children, and adolescents and young people, death makes a special impression.

- The official reaction to what happened in the Pskov region is a call to control the Internet and fight the so -called "death groups" on social networks that call adolescents to suicide. How much, in your opinion, is this an effective method?

It is very difficult to speak, standing on a pedestal, for children it is impossible

- We are trying to shift the responsibility for our children in order to facilitate our own guilt. Because we are afraid to admit that we can’t cope with our children, we do not agree with them. And at the same time, we do not want to lose power over children and call on intermediaries, social workers, psychologists. And this conflict is very old and traditional, let's say, for our education system. If we still insist on the absolute authority of the fathers, and with them deputies, police officers, special forces and so on, we will not leave either ourselves or children the chances of agreeing. Because speaking, standing on a pedestal, is very difficult, this is impossible for children. They themselves want to live their own special, unique life, they themselves want to be authorities for themselves, they simply do not have time for this, and they do not hear the right tips from us, ”Olga Makhovskaya believes.