Nine teenagers were sent to a mental hospital due to participation in a closed group on social networks

In Krasnoyarsk, nine schoolchildren were sent to a psychiatric dispensary due to participation in a closed group on social networks. This was reported on the website of the TV company "TVK 6".

Only one schoolgirl is described in detail in the message, with reference to her mother. As of August 26, the girl has been in the mental hospital for three days. The reason was the participation of the girl in a group on VKontakte dedicated to the massacre at the American school Columbine, which occurred in 1999.

According to the mother, armed men came for the schoolgirl at 5 am. During the search, they seized her diaries, laptop, phone and tore posters from the wall with frames from the series. In addition, they seized an air rifle and hands belonging to the elder sister. After that, the mother and younger daughter were taken to a psycho-neurological dispensary, where the girl was left. Mothers were offered to sign a voluntary agreement on the examination of the child. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, visits with relatives are not possible at the dispensary. Neither a copy of the search protocol nor a copy of the document on placement in the dispensary was left with the mother.

The report says that, according to the girl’s older sister, she really discussed murders in American schools with a friend in social networks in the spring, but there was no approval of such actions in her words. The sister also said that during the search, the security forces “gave comments that it is necessary to bring up a child with a belt.”

The interests of the mother of the schoolgirl are represented by the lawyer of the International Human Rights Group "Agora" Vladimir Vasin, the head of "Agora" Pavel Chikov writes in the telegram channel.

There are no details about the other eight children in the message on the TV company's website. The television company's sources in law enforcement say that they were all members of a closed group and were preparing for some kind of active action.