The Prosecutor'S Office Asked For Nine Years In Prison For Two Sakhalin Technical School Students Accused Of Preparing Columbine

The prosecutor's office asked for nine years in a general regime colony for 18-year-old Maxim Pudovkin and Ilya Grunis, students of a mining technical college from Uglegorsk on Sakhalin, accused of preparing Columbine there. Novaya Gazeta about this Pudovkin’s father Andrei told .

Both were also asked to be fined 30 thousand rubles. since April The case has been pending in the 1st Eastern District Military Court in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk . The students are accused of , , .

FSB officers detained both in March 2020. The department claimed that they were planning an attack on the technical school, propagating terrorism on the Internet, and that during the search they confiscated a sawed-off shotgun with cartridges, a detonator, homemade explosive devices and diaries that described preparations for the attack.

The investigation alleged that Pudovkin, a few days before his arrest in March, posted a link to download the file “Freedom. Manifesto of Justice"; its text was also on CDs seized during the search.

Novaya Gazeta wrote that the examination did not find any traces of teenagers on the seized weapons, and their parents claimed that they had planted them along with the disks during the search. Pudovkin’s lawyer said that the Investigative Committee’s specialists made mistakes when examining the devices seized from teenagers. Pudovkin, according to his father, complained that he received SMS messages about an attempt to hack his old page on Odnoklassniki.