The conflict on the playground in St. Petersburg, from where the grandmother of a healthy child drove off the children's children, is not exhausted

The Investigative Committee will soon give him a legal assessment. The offender of the wards of the rehabilitation center - the wife of an individual entrepreneur Natalia Lipskaya - can be brought to criminal liability under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("excitement of hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity"). Thousands of people have already condemned her. Lipskaya deleted all its accounts in social networks. On July 27, at Change.org, St. Petersburgers launched a petition to the Russian Ombudsman Tatyana Moskalkova demanding to punish the “Vegetable”, as well as amend the legislation in order to protect the rights of the disabled. More than 15 thousand people signed under the petition a day.

The events that stirred the public unfolded on the playground in the courtyard of house 18, building. 2 on Admiral Cherokov Street on the morning of July 26. Grandmother, walking with a 4-year-old granddaughter, met children here with a diagnosis of autism and violently reacted to them. Video with the record of the incident witnesses of what happened on the same day posted on the Internet.

“Take away the children from here! - Aggressively requires a well -groomed blonde of middle age in the frame. A woman standing opposite (the tutor of the non -profit center of inclusive projects and the social integration of children with the special needs “What difference”) calmly asks: “On what basis”? “Sick children must walk separately,” the lady explains. - They scare our children. Screw your own in the third building. I am the owner here, screw it there. ”

“And we were told here,” Tutor objects timidly.

“Who said? Where are you sitting? I will now turn to the management company and find out who is the owner of your premises, from whom you are renting. You will eat from here ”! - promises Natalya Lipskaya. The name of the instigators of the conflict was later reported by the neighbors in the house, who recognized her on the video. They added details: Lipskaya - the owner of an apartment with an area of ​​about 130 square meters. meters in the elite housing complex "Baltic Pearl"; the wife of a businessman who sells double -glazed windows; The main thing of life considers the career of his 4-year-old granddaughter, regularly participating in castings and fashionable photo shoots.

In the video from the Baltic Pearl, published by eyewitnesses of the incident, it is clear that the tutor of the center “What difference” also removes the entire conflict on its mobile phone. Natalia is indignant at this and tries to knock the phone out of the hands of the teacher: "I said: stop taking me away!" She is trying to stop attempts at the assault: "You make me hurt!" Lipskaya denies: “I don’t hurt you ... Go with your children! .. You won’t walk here. You have your yard. <...> You cannot walk here. You should have your own quarantines, all kinds of crap. ”

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The center of inclusive projects and the social integration of children with the special needs “What difference” was created in September last year.

- Before that, there was an initiative group, and for more than two years we have been helping in the format of the weekend camp, giving parents the opportunity to relax, and children with developmental features to acquire new experience in communication, socialization, ordinary life, in an interview with “New” said the founder and director of the ANO “What difference” Valeria Kataeva.

For 10 months that the center is located on Admiral Cherokov Street, such a nuisance with it is happened a second time.

But in the first case, Natalya Lipskaya kicked out from the site.

“She then behaved absolutely the same, screamed, we tried to talk to her, she did not make contact,” continues Valeria Kataeva. “She is not even trying to understand what kind of children it is.” She is not interested. Before a meeting with Lipskaya with such manifestations of aggression and rejection of our children, we did not encounter.

Employees of the Center “What difference” filed a statement to the police of the Krasnoselsky district of St. Petersburg. However, already in the evening, on Monday, after the first publications in the media, about the beginning of the pre -investigation verification on the fact of what happened, announced to the Main Directorate of the IC of the Russian Federation in St. Petersburg.

“Upon its end, a procedural decision will be made in the coming days,” the press service of the department told the “New”.

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On July 28, the leadership of the St. Petersburg branch of the All-Russian Society of Parents of Children with disabilities with a request for a similar verification turned to the city prosecutor's office.

There is no statistics on how often people with disabilities in Russia in one form or another are faced with discrimination. Specialists of centers and funds working with children with disabilities (VIS), relying on their observations, note that at least three to four times a year the most loud of such incidents become public.

Today, people from different cities in numerous comments on the video posted on the Internet, violently and categorically condemn and condemn the act of grandmothers from the Baltic Pearl. This is normal, it is expected. But the question arises:

If Lipskaya’s actions are perceived in society so unequivocally, then why are the parents of children with various diagnoses (autism, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, cancer, etc.) constantly (not three to four times a year) are faced with the fact that their sons and daughters are humiliated in one way or another, try to isolate them?

The criminal case against Lipskaya, if the Investigative Committee still initiates it, will not become a precedent. In 2015, in the Nizhny Novgorod region, cafes employees who put the sister of the model Natalia Vodianova Oksana, suffering from autism and cerebral palsy, were brought to the Nizhny Novgorod region for insulting.

However, law enforcement agencies react far from every such attack on people with features.

In 2018, in Moscow, neither police officers nor investigators intervened in a situation when a family with cancer patients who poisoned the neighbors was forced to move out of a rented apartment.

Last summer, in St. Petersburg, in the midst of the Pandemia, employees of the Prospects and Anton here nearby charitable organizations were evacuated from neuropsychiatric boarding schools and several pupils were placed in the apartments. Then, dissatisfied with such a neighborhood, the residents of the house on Engels Avenue reached a serious assault against employees who accompanied the disabled, but in the end there were also no criminal cases.

There are no cases, because there is no relevant article in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, the parents of children with disabilities believe. In the petition, which they launched on Change.org on July 27 and addressed the Russian Ombudsman Tatyana Moskalkova, contain two requirements: to hold the offender of children from the Baltic Pearl and make the necessary changes to federal legislation.

“In our country,” the appeal says, “there is an article by the Criminal Code on the insult of the feelings of believers or insulting a representative of the authorities. And the feelings of people with disabilities are not protected in any way, although the facts of such violations are not uncommon ... This is a full -time situation for a child with developmental characteristics, with physical characteristics, when he is faced with persecution from other, “healthy” people. ”

A pronounced public reaction is ambiguously relate to experts. In their opinion, the “public flogging” started today, although understandable, does not solve the problem. The lack of dialogue with opponents and the manifested cruelty can only give rise to a mirror response.

Expert comments

Svetlana Mamonova,

Director for External Relations of BO "Prospects":

- Of course, what happened, and what this woman said is terrible. Any citizen of a healthy society would be outraged by this. But I am no less disturbed and indignant at the persecution of this lady, to whom the Investigative Committee and the Prosecutor's Office have already joined. The man expressed, let the very offensive, unfair, but his position. In fact, she expressed the opinion of at least 10% of the population of our country. What will we achieve if we conclude it now? We will come to the fact that hatred, bitterness will grow stronger, and people who support her views will save this anger in themselves.

To really change the position of citizens who are intolerant of disabled people, you need to build a dialogue with them. They are not obliged to love all special people. For many, the protest is caused by fear: I am afraid of everything that I do not understand.

When in 2015 we and my wards and I came to the village of Razdolie to equip our house of accompanied residence, then we were thrown to us on the threshold. They demanded that we get out. But we ourselves made a big mistake: we came there, fell like snow on his head, without building any dialogue with the local community. But instead of response from our side, we followed the path of dialogue. We listened to people, asked them questions. They said: "We will fight to the last drop of blood for life without disabled people in the expanse." We answered: "Good." But explain: in which law is the right to live without disabled people? In our dialogs, the absurdity of the requirements of local residents was manifested and acquaintance, rapprochement with our guys took place. Now the whole local community is our friends. Precisely because we calmly and patiently explained to them what kind of people they have, what features they have.

It seems to me that in today's situation we need a dialogue. We need to talk with Lipskaya, hear her. I do not exclude that it was not fear that moved it, but a feeling of permissiveness or its own superiority. But a person needs to give a chance to change. And the body movements that the authorities make, from my point of view, are hypocritical. A simple example. In St. Petersburg lives a woman, one-raising a brown son. The city was allocated to them by temporary housing in the house without a ramp. The boy weighs 70 kg, a woman - 50, and she drags him on herself. For her every morning to go outside - torture. The city cannot or does not want to solve one problem for years.

Love Arcus,

Founder of BF for children with developmental features “Anton here is near”:

- This video accidentally got into the information field, and that’s why everyone was worried. Over the past two days, I have received an inconceivable number of calls on this occasion. And we have been working for eight years, during which this happens every day. I emphasize: every day and everywhere - at hundreds of playgrounds, in places of rest, in places of entertainment, in attractions, in stores, etc.

My incident’s assessment is unequivocal: it is a cave medieval ignorance from this lady and a manifestation of her personal qualities, one of which is cruelty. But this woman, unfortunately, is in line with the current social norm. Of course, there are claims to her personally, but even more to all of us who suffers this social norm. Usually such people do not make comments. They are not driven away. Most often, all, silently, pass by. No one takes the protection of parents of children with disabilities. Today in Russia, such behavior is a socially acceptable norm of society.

I call it ignorance, because such people are not aware that special children can teach healthy children by definition. Of course, there is no need to pretend that there can be no difficulties with special children. But they can be exactly as much as with all other children. A special child and usual can hit a scoop. The latter is even rather, since it is better developed.

It is most important to understand today: social norms do not change by punishing one. This can only embitter other disloyal parents of healthy children. I am generally a small supporter of criminal punishments. And in this situation - even more so. Here is the only way out: a change in social norms. This is, unfortunately, non -construction work. Changing social norms occurs by education and informing, more. The behavior that the lady was demonstrated on the playground in the Baltic Pearl should become indecent, reprehensible, socially unacceptable for society.

Maria Maltseva,

Associate Professor of the Department of Psychology and Pedagogy of St. Petersburg State University, Professor of the Department of Clinical Medicine and Medical Rehabilitation of SPBMSI, Director of the Control and Development of Kazis therapy In Russia:

- Such manifestations of non -recovery can have different reasons. There are people who have a phobia on the disabled, it is called paraplegaphobia and is included in the register of phobic disorders. A person sees a person who is unlike him, and is scared or becomes aggressive.

But most often, negative reactions to people with features arise in those who, to put it mildly, are not very well brought up, have a narrow horizons, is poorly informed.

In Russia, it is extremely necessary to continue to develop inclusion. With us, it is so far crooked, undergrowth, but still inclusive programs are of great benefit, and more healthy people are more than patients. When a healthy child systematically sees a child with developmental features (with autism, cerebral palsy or other disease), he gets used to the fact that this person is the same as him. Yes, it is slightly different, but we are all different: someone is red, someone curly, someone in a wheelchair, and someone does not want to talk.

I often had to conduct social inclusive events that people with healthy children came to. We let everyone on the holiday, but out of interest asked: why did you come? People answered: “We want our child to grow up with a mentally healthy person to see that the children are different, they are not dangerous, not aggressive, you can communicate with them.”

I have no feeling that manifestations of rejection and aggression regarding unusual people in recent years have become less in Russia. But society began to react to them differently. If earlier, citizens often responded to such excesses: “Yes, remove the disabled, they scare, they interfere”, today society is increasingly defending people with disabilities.

I do not agree that the persecution of this woman has now begun. If a citizen who stole something, ten people will say that he is a thief, it will not be persecution, but a statement of fact. A person who committed an unacceptable act in society should be unpleasant. This is the power of social censure. Protecting the rights of all, we were a little carried away. The rights of those who should go. And censure should have an educational effect: others will look and will not repeat such an act.

Elena Gracheva,

Coordinator of programs, member of the board of the Advita charitable foundation:

- Seven years ago, when the city tried to allocate a room for the hostel, the inhabitants of the house in which they gave us the room categorically opposed. They lied to us there, cursed that they did not need a cancer dispensary here, that “cancer is flowing along the walls”, and they would protest. We were met with scandals whenever we came there. It was impossible to convince these people. As a result, we refused this room.

Xenophobia has its own reasons. Partly biological, partly cultural. However, according to my observations, recently in Russia there have been fewer cases of failure and discrimination of people with features. And the point is not only in the greater awareness of society, but also in a wider spread of the idea that any people are people. We have advanced greatly in recent years both in the information and everyday space. The further we leave the mythological field to civilian, the less such excesses become. The slow, gradual path to the idea that sick people have the same rights as healthy ones, we still do it.

Under the text
Since the creation of the Center “What difference” has existed exclusively on its own funds: due to a certain number of paid classes. According to Valeria Kataeva, she was forced to get into debt to make repairs in the room. The center and other material difficulties were experienced. For several months, the employees of ANO “What difference” on the Planeta.ru resource tried to raise money for equipment for the center. After the incident on the playground in two days, people transferred more than 500 thousand rubles to the organization. Now the center will be able to close all debts and buy equipment for the new school year.