The ninth grade of pre -trial detention center

As a result, he is trying to blind from the nitrate and packs of sugar schoolboy-terrorist

For almost a year, 15-year-old Kirill Kuzminkin from the metropolitan district of South Tushino is in a pre-trial detention center-after several cans from baby food, nitrum, five grams of gunpowder and a bag of sugar were found in his apartment. This turned out to be enough to blame the teenager of the manufacture and storage of explosives. The investigation in the case has already been completed, initially the student was accused of storing the components of explosives as part of an organized group, but then they abandoned this version. Relatives of Cyril are sure that he could not at all collect a real bomb, and from the discovered materials, according to experts, it is impossible to make explosives.

In the field of view of the special services, Kuzminkin came after the 17-year-old Mikhail Zhlobitsky on October 31, 2018 made a self-tank at the Arkhangelsk UFSB building. Before the explosion in one of the and-analyst chats in Telegram, a message appeared (presumably, from that very student-bunker) that he is going to arrange a terrorist attack and takes responsibility for it. The motive called the torture of the detainees and the fabrication of criminal cases against the anarchists.

After the terrorist attack, the special services began to actively conduct inspections and start criminal cases against those who at least somehow, albeit indirectly, were associated with the demolition.

So they went to the Moscow schoolboy. According to investigators, Kuzminkin and Zhlobitsky met on social networks and discussed the technology of manufacturing explosive devices. The boy’s father - Igor Kuzminkin - claims that his son and an explosion in Arkhangelsk were only in the same group on social networks.

"We put a stick in the ass - and you will tell everything"

On November 1, 2018, Cyril, along with his friend, went to the country to help grandfather Alexander Vladimirovich Kuzminkin. The next day, while the children were asleep, he was going to go to the clinic. He opened the gate and saw machine gunners in masks. They needed Cyril, they were interested in whom he wanted to blow up on the “Russian march”, asked about Zhlobitsky in which groups consisted, ”recalled Alexander Vladimirovich.

Having examined the site, the security forces did not find anything than they were unhappy.

According to his grandfather, they began to threaten his grandson: "We will put a stick in the ass - and you will tell everything." Then Cyril and grandfather were taken to the apartment for a search.

An elderly man still regrets that he agreed to sign the protocol with the consent of the “inspection of the scene”. The interrogator of the South Tushino OMVD Ilyukhin assured him that this was not a search and they did not need a court permission. As the “new” lawyer of the Agora human rights group, Alexei Ladin, explained, the inspection of the scene differs from the search in that in the first case it can be carried out before initiating a criminal case, and a search - after. In both cases, a court sanction for investigative actions is necessary, Ladin noted.

In the case of Kuzminkin with this "formality", apparently, the investigating authorities decided not to bother. During the so -called inspection in the apartment were only the explosive equipment of the FSB. Soon, lawyer Sergei Ashanin came to the rescue to Kuzminkin. He recorded all the work of the investigation group on the recorder (the record is at the disposal of the editorial office). During the search, several packages and a glass liter jar with a stuffed substance of gray color were found (the specialist suggested that the discovered material “is a home -made mixed explosive based on ammonium nitrate”); a package with the inscription "Ammonian nitrate"; Several glass cans from baby food (in one of them they found 5.6 g of gunpowder); Sugar package; a container with the inscription "Liquid for removing varnish" Tenderness "; ammonia and plastic bottle with the inscription "turpentine". All found substances were sent for examination.

The interrogator did not have time to finish the design of the protocol, the investigator from the UK Su in the North -Western Administrative District in Moscow, Julia Kulakova, entered the apartment and, as the boy’s relatives say, ordered that now she would conduct her inspection of the apartment, and, besides the investigator and expert, everyone should leave her.

- And the lawyer? Not needed? Ashain asked her.

- You can be free. Stand in the doorway and do not interfere.

After a second search, the investigator Kulakova replenished the collection of seized items: matches of matches, a traumatic gun, a signal radio station, scales, a video camera, two pairs of plastic glasses, packaging “potassium permanganate”, a canvas with glued paper targets and electronic media. According to the lawyer Auchanin, the investigation for some reason did not conduct a fingerprint examination to establish whether everything that was withdrawn belongs to Kuzminkin.

When the apartment was searched, the investigators brought Cyril into the kitchen to “talk” (actually, “talk” does not correlate in any way with criminal procedure legislation, especially when the object of “conversation” is a child). The lawyer was told that “no investigative actions are happening” and the teenager “does not need protection”. All this time, Ashanin continued to conduct an audio recording. "New" gives some excerpts from the "conversation" of operatives with Cyril:

Operationsman : Let's decide with the “Russian march”. How many groups were supposed to go to this action?

Kirill Kuzminkin : He [the name is not established] wanted to call.

Operational Room : Who did he want to call? Group, friends, acquaintances, whom? There was an understanding of how many people would come there?

Kuzminkin : We have not fully agreed.

Operator : What were they going to take with them? What means?

Kuzminkin : I don't know, chains there, batons ...

Operationsman : But these are your “fun” that you prepared?

Kuzminkin : definitely not. I did not do this for this, but for entertainment, this is in no way connected with this of ours that I did.

Operationsman : Cyril, grind again, now it all depends on you.

We will all find out, but if it is too late, you are responsible, moral in the first place. How will you live with this if tomorrow is the same guy as in Arkhangelsk will go exploding?

<...> Let's remember everything and say while you still have time while time works for you, and not mind. <...>

The operative : You deleted something, you said that you did not make any bombs, and you, it turns out, is full of the house. You said that you had one, and you experienced two.

Kuzminkin : They did not ask.

Office : They asked, Kirill, they asked. And once, once to the side. Look, grandfather is already with red eyes, no, we are all tired, and you all continue to wind up the plots.

Kuzminkin : No, I'm not ...

Operational Room : Do you realize the scale of the tragedy what can happen?

Kuzminkin : Yes. <...>

Operationsman : Come on, so that you and I do not see each other, so it will be better for you and me.

From this dialogue it follows that Kuzminkin may have been related to one of the informal teenage groups, and he does not deny that he is a supporter of anarchist views.

But who, at the age of 14, did not burn the nitrate in the sink and did not try to save the world dreaming of fighting the Nazis? However, children's fantasies do not form the corpus delicti.

According to Kuzminkin's relatives, he - yes, made “crackers and other harmless pyrotechnics”, but they do not know how it could have exactly the seized materials. And the investigation also did not clarify this moment.

"Like how Babahat"

On November 2, the GSU of the IC of the Russian Federation in Moscow opened a criminal case for the production and storage of explosives as part of a group of persons (part 3 of article 222.1 and part 3 of article 223.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). After the search, Kuzminkina Jr. was taken for interrogation. He did not agree to plead guilty and refused to testify, according to the 51st article of the Constitution. Actually, throughout the investigation, he did not utter a word and each time refused to testify - as the lawyer clarifies, this is their agreed protection line. “He does not deny that he used these components for the manufacture of pyrotechnic compounds. In a psychological and psychiatric examination, he said that he did the crackers, “I like it like a woman’s,” added Auchanian lawyer.

On November 6, the investigator spoke in the Presnensky court of Moscow demanding to arrest Kuzminkin. Although the prosecutor’s office insisted on leaving a teenager under the supervision of relatives or electing any other preventive measure not related to deprivation of liberty. However, judge Sergei Artemov sent a schoolboy to a pre -trial detention center. All meetings were held closed, only parents were allowed to be present at the hearing. Grandfather Cyril was not always allowed into the hall, it was necessary to expect a decision in the corridor. Most likely, the consideration of the case on the merits will also pass behind closed doors.

The investigation found that Kuzminkin at home made the perotion of acetone and a mixture of ammonium nitrate (ammonium nitrate). “Anticipating a possible occurrence of socially dangerous consequences, he transferred the made explosive substances with him using public transport,” the investigator said. What exactly the accused tried to do with these substances and where he transported them, the investigation did not find out.

In addition, not a single examination appointed by the investigation established whether it was possible to collect explosives from the found materials.

This issue remained open throughout the investigation until Kuzminkin’s lawyer appointed his own expert research. According to the conclusion, a detected jar of baby food with acetone peroxide with a total mass of 140 g. “It does not have combustible, explosive properties, cannot be exploded and burned”, and the 5-gram gunpowder found in open or heating cannot explode, simply burns out. ” Only ammonium nitrate can be used as a component for a home-made explosive, but in order for something to explode, other combustible components that were not found are also needed, the study says.

Issues regarding the storage and turnover of weapons, ammunition and explosives regulates Federal Law No. 150 “On Weapons”. Violation of this law is charged with Kuzminkin. The Plenum of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation explained that “chemical compounds or mixtures of substances” can be understood by explosive substances, capable of the influence of external influences to explosion (such as TNT, ammonites, plastles, elastitis, gunpowder, etc.).

Such a small amount of materials found in Kuzminkin cannot be the only basis for initiating a criminal case - it is necessary to establish a motive, the “new” lawyers surveyed are considered.

“I see such a tendency that law enforcement agencies are trying to reduce many political affairs to terrorism. A lot of criminal cases have been instituted, where there is no terrorist component or propaganda of terrorism, but they need to somehow get out. Sometimes it comes to the point of absurdity, ”says lawyer Alexei Ladin.

It is noteworthy that the investigation tried to translate the Kuzminkin case into an article, but the official accusation of preparing the attack was never charged.

Witnesses were interrogated in the case, mainly Kirill's friends, adolescents of 14-15 years old, who said that they had made crackers and firecrackers for “entertain”. The schoolchildren gave these testimonies on November 2 after the searches, the protocol states that the interrogation was carried out from 0:30 to 1:40. “The minor is to interrogate at night and you can’t. When one of them was brought to a confrontation with her mother, she was outraged that they left the investigator at the beginning of the eighth in the morning, ”says lawyer Auchanin.

He pays attention to other violations that were committed during the investigation. The search was carried out without a court permission, the investigator could not conduct a re -inspection of the place until the investigator finished the protocol, and everything that was taken from the apartment cannot be accepted as evidence, Ashanin believes. The interrogation of Cyril in the kitchen with the operatives was held without the participation of a legal representative, and minor witnesses in the case sat in the investigator’s office all night, which is also a violation (Article 191 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation).

On April 16, 2019, Kuzminkin was softened by the charge, an “organized group” disappeared from the case. The decision on this was made after the analysis of the decrypted correspondence of the accused on the social network on VKontakte. Now Kuzminkin threatens under Part 1 of Art. 222.1 (“illegal storage, sale and acquisition of weapons”) up to five years in prison, and under Part 1 of Art. 223.1 ("illegal manufacture of weapons") - from three to six years.

"Competent, indifferent, normal kid"

Instead of going to school this year, a ninth grader Cyril is engaged in a video teacher once a week - from a pre -trial detention center. Periodically, problems with the receipt of textbooks happen. So, the last time the employees of the insulator did not miss mathematics. The reasons for such an “educational collapse” representatives of the pre -trial detention center did not explain to the family of Cyril in any way.

Relatives categorically reject all charges against him. The boy’s grandfather says that the grandson was fond of robots, independently studied physics and astronomy , was engaged in boxing, wanted to become a journalist. In a word, a normal kid, ”adds Alexander Vladimirovich.

“They discussed the news with him what is happening in the country, as the oligarchs earn and steal,” says Alexander Vladimirovich. - I know that he was interested in anarchy, he did not hide it.

I told him that once you are interested in, then read about the origins of this ideology, read, for example, Kropotkin and Bakunin. He read something. I was not serious about his interest, I thought teenage hobbies. ”

On October 15, in one of the last meetings in the Moscow City Court, where the next complaint was considered to extend the arrest, Cyril refused to participate. “It is not the first time he takes such a position, he already understood everything. Throughout the year, Cyril participated in various meetings, he was convinced how much this senseless event, ”Auchanin lawyer explained the position of his client.

All witnesses in the case were interrogated, examinations were carried out, correspondence from social networks was received, the investigation was completed, but the student continues to be detained. The lawyer asked Kuzminkin to let Kuzminkin on bail and assign an additional preventive measure - leave under the supervision of relatives. The defense noted that the 15-year-old child, being in the isolation ward, could not fully study, but simply sits-no investigative actions were carried out for several months, only inaction. The judge asked the defender not to dramatize and left the complaint, and Kuzminkin in custody until November 2.