Court gavelVORONEZH, Jan 18 insane conscript soldier Anton Makarov, who was accused of killing three colleagues at a military airfield in Voronezh, the Voronezh Garrison Military Court said in a statement. The case was considered by the 2nd Western District Military Court in the building of the Voronezh Garrison Military Court. The hearings were held behind closed doors, only representatives of the parties could attend.A pensioner who shot at a kindergarten in Perm will be sent for treatment «Based on the results of the consideration of the criminal case, by the decision of the 2nd Western District Military Court, Makarov was released from criminal liability … and a compulsory medical measure was applied to him in the form of compulsory treatment in a medical organization that provides psychiatric care in stationary conditions, of a specialized type,» the message says. As the court notes, according to the conclusion of the inpatient complex forensic psychological and psychiatric examination, Makarov during the period of committing crimes and at the present time «suffers from a mental disorder, in connection with which he does not realize and could not realize the actual nature and social danger of his actions and direct them. At the same time, Makarov was not in a state of passion at the time of the crimes.A Krasnoyarsk citizen who beat a doctor on a call was sent for compulsory treatment «All the conclusions of the expert commission are scientifically justified and given after a direct examination of Makarov in a hospital. Taking into account the foregoing, as well as data on Makarov's personality, his behavior in court, the court found reliable the conclusion of the experts, and Makarov was declared insane,” the court adds. According to the RF Investigative Committee, early in the morning of November 9, 2020, 20-year-old conscript soldier Anton Makarov killed an officer with an ax at the Baltimore military airfield in Voronezh, after which he took possession of a service weapon and shot his colleagues. Two of them died, one was wounded. Armed with a pistol, Makarov fled, on the same day he was detained by police 47 kilometers from Voronezh. A case was opened on the murder of three people and theft of firearms using violence dangerous to life or health. The sanction of these articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation provides for up to life imprisonment. Makarov was taken into custody, and then he was diagnosed with a mental disorder and sent from SIZO No. 3 of the Voronezh Region to a special-type psychiatric hospital.
