Fontanka: The Investigative Committee began an investigation after reports of colleagues bullying a cadet at the Mikhailovsky Military Academy in St. Petersburg

The military investigative department of the Investigative Committee for the St. Petersburg garrison began an investigation after a publication about the bullying of a cadet of the Mikhailovsky Military Artillery Academy by colleagues, reports . Fontanka

According to the publication, investigators have already established the identity of the victim; he turned out to be a fifth-year student at the academy. He said that his colleagues bullied him two years ago, and then they were expelled for poor academic performance.

on the abuse of a cadet from Kolomna the day before, with reference to a neighbor of the affected family reported The Eyewitness website . “Boys are beaten, forced to walk naked in the river, etc. The management of the academy does not react,” the neighbor is quoted as saying.

According to the site, videos and photos of the abuse began to circulate on social networks. Thus, in one video, a cadet with a smeared face is forced to kneel down, “shoot” with a plastic slipper and ask for forgiveness for being a “rat.”

In another video, a young man is forced to put on a helmet and is shot in the head with a gun. At the same time, the publication does not specify whether it was pneumatic or gunshot, and also does not publish the video recordings themselves, limiting themselves to a description of the content.

Member of the Committee of Soldiers' Mothers Irina Chergina said that she advised the victims to contact the press. In addition, the military prosecutor's office began checking information about bullying, Fontanka writes.