Politsyki. Valeria Zotova, who trusted her new friend, and she turned out to be a provocateur from the FSB

More and more citizens of Russia are behind bars due to disagreement with the authorities who unleashed the war against Ukraine. The expense of political prisoners is hundreds - even if their names are known, human rights defenders are increasingly difficult to keep track of the fate of everyone. "Mediazone" is trying to regularly remind of these people. Today, Polina Arkatova talks about Valeria Zutova, a young girl from Yaroslavl, who did not hide antivonous views and therefore turned out to be a convenient object for the “operational experiment” of special services.

On the evening of February 16, 2023, 19-year-old Lera Zotova from Yaroslavl at a taxi came to the administration of the village of Karabikh. She had a five -liter bottle of gasoline with her, checks with a gas station for 211 rubles and a lighter. On the operational video of the detention, the armed security forces surround the taxi and lie on the girl snow with a cry: “Police, fucking! From the car, to the dick! Fell, fucking! Falled! ”

The municipal authorities of Karabih that winter collected products, soap and razors for soldiers fighting in Ukraine, and a centner wax was stored in the administration building for “trench candles”. Leru was accused of attempting to attack the SBU and sentenced to 6 years in the colony.

As Lera later said to her mother, after the arrest, “she was kept in the office for a day, beat, threatened with a stamp. Without socks, in one T -shirt she stood in the snow. They dipped his face in the snow. "

Already during the investigation and the trial, it became clear that a girl who, from the first days of the war, did not hide sympathy for Ukraine, became a victim of a rough provocation.

Two months before the failed arson, a certain Andrei wrote to her in Votsap, who introduced himself as an employee of the SBU from Kyiv. The man sent lera flowers, but refused to show his photo. It was Andrey "who subsequently suggested that she set fire to the Karabih administration and promised to pay two thousand dollars for it. For the “Magnit” Zutova, the Magnit was an impressive amount.

The second acquaintance, which would have to alert Lerus, took place less than a month before the detention. In VKontakte, a girl who called herself was Karina and told her as if her boyfriend fighting in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were added to her. “Karina” encouraged her girlfriend in front of the failed arson, helped to buy gasoline, she called a taxi to Karabikh and even led Zotov to the place. In the materials of the case, Karina takes place as a classified witness under the pseudonym General-in honor of the Russian Dronamkadze drone. According to her testimony, their acquaintance with Leroy from the very beginning was the “operational experiment” of the FSB.

At the same time, it follows from the correspondence of the girls that I was not going to set fire to the Zotov administration: she hoped to deceive Andrey, photograph the bottle of gasoline against the background of the building, get money and make a new tattoo.

Now Lera understands that they deceived her.

She is serving a term in the Kostroma region, operates in sewing production for 12 hours, and devotes free time to school education, which she did not have time to finish in the wild. Despite the nit -picking of the administration and difficult relations with other prisoners, in letters she finds the strength to calm and support relatives.

“You asked about the punishment cell, Mamul. Nothing special, I survived that too. Only there it was cold - and that’s it, ”she wrote to her mother. - Do not worry, mom, please. The term is not eternal. ”

Letter address:

156511, Kostroma region, Kostroma district, the village of Bokerazhny, ul. Mira, 1, IK-3, 3rd detachment, Valeria Igorevna Zotova, born in 2003

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