The father of the eighth-grader who opened fire at a school in Bryansk has been arrested.
Dmitriy Afanaskin Afanaskin will spend at least two months in pretrial detention, TASS reports. He is charged with two counts: careless possession of a weapon and incitement to suicide. Investigators believe the latter was committed "through threats, cruel treatment, and systematic humiliation of the human dignity" of his daughter. Afanaskin faces up to 17 years in prison.
"They've decided to make the parents the scapegoats, but what about the fact that she was bullied at school and no one cared?" "What does her father have to do with it? Dad didn't make sure she was inaccessible... Were you kids yourself? He's already been punished." "And in other schools, guys from the SVO [unclear military service] come in with guns and teach you how to aim." "Poor girl, who was bullied both at school and at home, and that's why her mental state is so damaged. Especially since adolescence is such a vulnerable age.", - readers of "NeMoskva" comment on the news.
The day before, the court also arrested the school's security guard for two months. Galina ChertkovAnd to the deputy director of gymnasium No. 5 To Larisa Catholic She has been charged with negligence resulting in the death of two or more persons. She has also been detained.
The director of the Excalibur Agency was also arrested. Sergei Poddubnyi, whose company provided security for the educational institution. He is accused of providing services that did not meet security requirements, resulting in the deaths of two people.
Earlier, the Russian Investigative Committee opened a murder case.
NotMoscow She wrote about a schoolgirl from Bryansk Gymnasium No. 5 who brought her father's shotgun into school and went on a shooting spree before committing suicide. Two people were killed and five were injured.
Photo, video: Press service of the Bryansk region courts, SHOT
