Baza: a case was opened against an eleventh-grader from Sterlitamak due to reports about Columbine

Against 17-year-old eleventh-grader Karina from Sterlitamak, a criminal case was opened under the article on a terrorist organization (Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code) because of reports about Columbine. about it Baza writes .

In April, the girl was searched, during which the security forces confiscated her personal diaries and equipment. According to the examination of the seized things, since the spring of 2022, the schoolgirl has been corresponding in social networks with her peers and propagated among them the idea of ​​attacking educational institutions.

The schoolgirl was chosen a measure of restraint in the form of a written undertaking not to leave.

• On February 2, the Supreme Court of Russia, at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office, recognized Columbine as a terrorist movement and banned its activities in the country.
• Columbine is the name of the American school where two students, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, shot 13 people in 1999 and planted bombs in the dining room. In the future, they began to call it attacks on educational institutions. The Supreme Court considered it to be an "international youth movement". The information and analytical center SOVA then expressed doubt that Columbine could be the subject of anti-terrorist legal regulation - in particular, because the actions of such shooters, as a rule, do not have a political component.