Petersburg: The Wagnerian who killed the girl was fined for a new attack

In St. Petersburg, the court fined the former mercenary of the Wagner PMC Ilya Metlitsky for the attack on the familiar and an attempt to inject her syringes with blood. Metlitsky was recruited from the colony, where he got for the brutal murder of a beauty blogger. It is reported by Fontanka with reference to the source.

According to the publication, Metlitsky was recruited to the Wagner PMC in December 2022, at which time he was serving a 16-year term for the murder of blogger Anastasia Kazantseva. From the entire term he left for three years. Fontanka does not report when Metlitsky was pardoned, but clarifies that "around May 2023" he returned from the war in Ukraine.

In December 2023, Metlitsky met in a telegram with a girl named Ekaterina, they talked, but later she found out about the murder and tried to stop communication.

After that, "Metlitsky began to come to her house, scream insults, write threats in messages." He struck Catherine at her house, arranged an accident, and then the canister broke the windshield in the girl’s car and left. Later Metlitsky returned to her house and drove into the bumper her car.

“Later by the traffic police building, he grabbed her behind the neck and tried to drive a syringe with a liquid similar to the blood, but hit the phone in his pocket,” Fontanka describes, without specifying how Metlitsky and Catherine found themselves at the traffic police.

A criminal case was instituted about intentional damage to the property, Metlitsky was placed under house arrest, while he continued to write to Catherine threats.

The court considered the case in a special manner - without researching evidence, Metlitsky pleaded guilty, the court took into account the “presence of state awards” (which ones are not specified), as well as the fact that Metlitsky announced the conclusion of a new contract from the Ministry of Defense and the desire to go to war again.

The publication of the Fontanka says that Catherine appears the court decision, as she considered it very soft. She also submitted an application "on the episode with blood", she was refused the initiation of the case, but the prosecutor’s office canceled this decision and a criminal case was instituted on the threat of murder.

For which Metlitsky was sitting

In May 2018, 21-year-old Ilya Metlitsky was in the apartment of Beauty-blogger Anastasia Kazantseva, with whom he was familiar with two years and recently lived in her rented apartment (what relations between them were, it was not exactly known, this is not explained in the verdict ). A conflict arose between Metlitsky and Kazantseva, he inflicted at least 100 blows with a knife, as well as an unknown stupid object.

Then he took her phone, transferred 15 thousand rubles to himself, then called a friend of the killed, said that he needed an urgent operation, and asked to transfer 110 thousand rubles, which his friend did.

Metlitsky took a selfie against the background of Kazantseva’s body and sent a picture to her friend.

From the sentence it is known that the conflict between Kazantseva and Metlitsky arose due to the fact that he talked with another girl. She wanted to stop communication, which is why Metlitsky began to threaten her and send her to her grandmother photographs of the genitals. Metlitsyki accused the girl of who came to his house with unfamiliar men, attacked him and selected 12 thousand rubles. According to Metlitsky, Kazantseva suggested applying to the police, but to increase the amount of the stolen, Metlitsky agreed and submitted an application, but Kuznetsov did not confirm this information during the interrogation.

In 2019, the court sentenced Metlitsky to 16 years in prison for murder with particular cruelty. He pleaded guilty.

• After the start of the war with Ukraine in Russia, killers, rapists and convicted for other serious crimes are regularly released in Russia. The relatives of the dead and victims protest, but to no avail.
• By November, according to journalists, Russian President Vladimir Putin pardoned at least 17 people convicted earlier for murder. All of them participated in the war in Ukraine and returned from the front to freedom. Some have already committed new crimes.