Law enforcers report prevention of suicide attempt of Astrakhan schoolgirl

FSB agents have stopped the actions of a user of a social network registered under nickname "Philip Lis", who incited a minor girl from Astrakhan to commit suicide. This was reported by investigators.

According to the investigators, in the spring of 2016, "Philip Lis" posted in a closed group of the social network "VKontakte" some materials with propaganda of suicide. He sent private messages to a 16-year-old girl from Astrakhan to incite her to commit suicide.

A criminal case was instituted under Part 3 of Article 30 and Article 110 of the Criminal Code of the Russian   Federation (attempt to bring a minor to suicide). The case will be transferred to the Saint Petersburg Department of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) to combine it with the case against Philip Budeikin, an administrator of a "death group" in the social network "VKontakte" accused of inciting teenagers to commit suicide. Philip Budeikin was registered in the social network under nickname "Philip Lis", reported the website of the ICRF's Department for the Astrakhan Region on March 2.

Let us remind you that massive inspections of "death groups" were launched in May 2016 after the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta" published an article, reporting on activities in the social networks of a group of people inciting teenagers to commit suicide through a game-quest, the last task in which was a suicide. According to the "Novaya Gazeta", as of May 15, 2016, at the time of the publication of the article "Death Groups (18+)", those groups were involved in 130 suicides.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.