The St. Petersburg court will not broadcast the hearing on the ban on “Naruto” and Morgenstern’s songs due to the fact that “the camera is broken”

The Kolpinsky District Court of St. Petersburg will not broadcast a hearing on the request of the prosecutor's office to ban the distribution of the anime "Naruto" and Morgenstern's song "I Ate Grandfather" due to the fact that "our camera is broken," the head of the press service of the St. Petersburg courts, Daria Lebedeva, told Mediazona. .

Listeners and journalists will not be allowed into the meeting under the pretext of coronavirus restrictions. Mediazona offered to help organize the broadcast—the publication’s correspondent had already broadcast live on the Network case—but Lebedeva refused.

“I don't see the need for this. The essence of the remaining claim was announced at the previous meeting, we will report the results,” Lebedeva explained her position.

The first meeting of the Kolpino court on the claims of the prosecutor's office to ban several anime was broadcast live. Then judge Dmitry Nikulin banned the distribution of pages with the anime “Death Note”, “Tokyo Ghoul”, “Elfen Lied” and “Inuyashiki” within two hours. At the same time, he postponed consideration of the lawsuit to ban the anime “Tokyo Terror”, “Aki Sora” and Morgenstern’s song “I Ate Grandfather”, including because he could not find the lyrics of the song on the Internet. He also has not yet begun to consider demands to ban Naruto and Interspecies Reviewers.

The court's decisions were based on the conclusions of teachers Oleg Erlikh and Vasily Belov, who spoke about the blurring of gender characteristics in the anime and violent scenes studied. For example, Belov concluded that anime is shaping “a generation of murderers and sadists.”