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Criticism of media after killing of children

An apparently mentally ill days mother killed in Moscow brutal to a small child. In the criticism not only of the police but also on Russian TV channels do not work because they reported first, about the crime.

Mourning for the murdered girl

Anyone familiar with Russian TV channel, you may wonder about this case. From morning to evening, the reports and all the broadcasts, the reports in a sensational presentation with bloody close-UPS, and no ethical qualms about murders, robberies or rapes. Any incident with criminal refugees or migrants in Europe, whether real or invented, finds its transmission place. However, the message on a Monday in Moscow cruelly slain toddler was initially concealed.

Child killed, the apartment is lit

A from the Central Asian Republic of Uzbekistan, tribe of the end days mother killed, apparently, a four year old girl. The 38-year-old wife have separated with a knife to his head and left the apartment with the corpse burned, according to investigators circles. After that, the black-clad Muslim woman in the vicinity of a metro station, I shouted “Allah is great” and the bloody head of the child shown. They have threatened to blow themselves up in the air. The police came quickly, but it needed around 40 minutes to decide to access it. The woman had no explosives.

Only later it turned out that she was mentally ill and in their home country for treatment. They confessed to have committed the murder. About motives, there are still no findings. Allah had commanded her to kill the child, said the woman, according to Russian media. A Moscow court ordered on Wednesday a detention of two months. Investigators suspect that it might in this case also the instigator.

The Kremlin takes on the media in the protection of

In the criticism not only for terrorist attacks, specially trained for the Moscow police, which was overwhelmed in this case. It is argued mainly on the behavior of powerful Russian television channels, which are for the majority of Russians, the most important news source. Dmitry Peskov, press Secretary of the Russian President, denied on Tuesday any interference in the reporting. He, however, showed understanding for the decision of the TV channels not to report about the children’s murder. The incident was “too cruel to show on TV,” said the Kremlin spokesman. Also, Leonid Levin, Chairman of the Committee on information policy in the Russian state Duma, confirmed to the TV people is a correct decision.

Security forces in Moscow after the arrest of the childminder

Terrorism as a Background?

Critical voices can be found mainly on the Internet. He had been surprised by the Silence of the TV channels, wrote the popular Blogger and Journalist at the radio station “Echo of Moscow”, Alexander Pluschtschew. “I thought, this is plenty of fuel to Stoke hysteria, according to the Motto: The ‘Islamic state’ is in front of the door, should we, in Syria, more bombs,” says Pluschtschew.

But perhaps Moscow wants exactly the opposite: Every only apparent connection with the Russian military operation in Syria to avoid. Because the conscious Demonstration of a severed head of a black-clad Person, calling “Allahu Akbar”, is quite reminiscent of the grey murders the IS seeds.

Similar to cautious the Russian media and the authorities behaved after the crash of the Russian aircraft in Egypt last autumn. That it was an Islamist terrorist attack, was added only weeks later. In the case of the in Moscow killed girl, there was neither evidence nor suspicion of a terrorist Background. In the three points of the indictment, which is now charged, it’s not about terrorism. Only on Wednesday afternoon, there were first indications of a possible extremist track. Investigators are searching for two men from the environment of the alleged children killer, “might be associated with an international extremist group”, reported the Interfax news Agency.

Fear of unrest

Some in Russia argue that the Silence of the television channels was justified, because otherwise there would be ethnic riots or pogroms against migrants. However, according to this logic, then the Russian TV channels would have provoked “a conscious unrest in Germany” than they reported at the beginning of the year, in detail about an alleged gang rape of a girl in Berlin by migrants, writes Pluschtschtew.

In Russian society there has long been a latently anti-immigrant sentiment. It is directed against millions of people from Central Asia, who earn as a street sweeper, construction worker, or day care in Russia is money. This mood reached before six to seven years to be a highlight, as it was also in Moscow to mass brawls between Russian nationalists and migrants. After that, the situation seemed to have stabilized. The Moscow human rights organization “Sowa” was one of 2015 in Russia for nine murders with a xenophobic Background. In 2010, there were approximately 40. Most of the victims came from Central Asia. At the Moment, it seems the Russian leadership to prevent the resumption of such unrest.