This is how they arrested the perpetrator of the massacre in a Russian school

The 19-year-old said he “hates everyone” and believes it is “God”. (Photo: Twitterizvestia_ru / video capture).

A young Russian committed a massacre at a school in the city of Kazan and local media reported the moment when he was detained by the police after killing nine people.

In the footage, an officer can be seen handcuffed and dragged across the ground before taking him to a patrol car. The attacker was subsequently identified as Ilnaz Galyaviev, a 19-year-old former student of the center.

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A video released on social media and on Russian television shows the suspected gunman with a bare and bloody torso and hand and foot tied in a cell. The young man claimed to be God and said he had planned his act because he hates “everyone”.

“Two months ago, I realized I was God. No one told me, I did it alone, ”the young man said while answering investigators’ questions, Dozhd station reported. In a photo that circulated on the Telegram network, he is seen dressed in black paramilitary clothing, with a mask that says “God” in Russian in red letters.

According to local media, the young man was a student at the school where he committed the massacre. The TISBI Institute, where he was currently studying, said the young man, “calm and non-aggressive,” had been excluded in order not to take the exams.

Galyaviev got the permit to carry arms on April 28 and, according to the press, he was armed with a Turkish-made Hatsan rifle, the same used in a 2018 Crimean school massacre, the worst to date in Russia.

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The young man came to school shortly before 9:30 a.m. and started shooting indiscriminately at students and teachers. The governor of the Republic of Tatarstan, Rustam Minnikhanov, has confirmed nine dead, although the death toll could worsen in the coming hours.

“We lost seven student students. Four boys and three girls. In addition, we have lost a teacher. And we lost another woman. In total, we lost nine people, ”Minnikhanov said. Other 20 people, 18 children and two adults were hospitalized, regional authorities told the news agency AFP. “Six minors are in serious condition and in intensive care“Said spokesman Lazat Jaydarov.

The assailant was arrested by the police. Photo: Twitter / @ izvestia_ru / EFE // Anton Raykhshtat).

According to the local news agency Tatar-inform, hospitalized victims are between 7 and 62 years old. Russian president Vladimir Poutine He expressed his condolences to the families of the victims and ordered a review of the rules on carrying weapons, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

The Grand Mufti of Russia, Ravil Gainutdin, “Angrily condemned the actions of” a criminal and denounced “the worst sin in the eyes of the Almighty: the murder of innocent people“. An investigation for “murder” has been opened, which excludes for the moment a motive of a “terrorist” nature, the commission of inquiry said in a statement.