A second criminal case was opened against 18-year-old Ufa resident Karina Garipova under the article on justification of terrorism (Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) due to personal correspondence on VKontakte. This was reported by the telegram channel “Caution, News”.
According to the project, a criminal case was opened on October 10 due to “justification of the ideology Columbine ” . According to investigators, the girl allegedly sent several materials to unknown persons in which the organizers of the mass shooting in the United States were “attractively” presented.
Garipova is under recognizance not to leave.
This is the second criminal case against Garipova. The first was initiated in June of this year. It is unknown what became the reason for the persecution. At that time the girl was still underage and lived in Sterlitamak, they write “Caution, news”. She was searched and security forces confiscated equipment and sketchbooks. Two psychiatric examinations were carried out in the case. In the same month, Rosfinmonitoring added the girl to the register of terrorists and extremists.
- In February 2022, the Supreme Court of Russia, at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office, recognized Columbine as a terrorist movement and banned its activities. Columbine is the name of the American school where, in 1999, two students, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, shot and killed 13 people and planted bombs in the cafeteria. After that they began to call attacks on educational institutions. The Supreme Court considered that this was an “international youth movement.”
- The SOVA Research Center expressed doubt that Columbine could be the subject of anti-terrorism legal regulation, in particular because the actions of such shooters, as a rule, do not have a political component.