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'She had a bloodied head in her arms' Nanny allegedly murdered child
'I am a terrorist, I want your death,' woman yells in video while waving child's severed head
Andrew Osborn, REUTERS
First posted: Monday, February 29, 2016 07:36 AM EST | Updated: Monday, February 29, 2016 11:54 AM EST
Video footage shows a woman in Moscow, waving a child's severed head in the air, shouting that she is a terrorist. (Video screenshot)
MOSCOW - Russian police wrestled to the ground a woman in a hijab brandishing the severed head of a child outside a Moscow metro station on Monday and charged her with murder, in an incident that stirred fears of an Islamist terrorist attack.
The macabre episode was caught on camera by passers-by, with footage showing the unnamed woman in a black hijab wandering around in the street holding an infant's severed head high in the air.
"I am a terrorist, I want your death," she can be heard screaming in heavily accented Russian in a rambling tirade in which she appears to criticize democracy and talk about the end of the world.
Warning: The below video contains graphic content.
Investigators said they thought the woman had been working as a nanny for a Moscow family and had murdered a child in her care before setting fire to the family's flat and fleeing.
The child was three or four years old, they said.
"Given the clearly deranged behaviour of the detainee, investigators swiftly ordered her to undergo psychiatric tests to establish whether she is capable of understanding the significance of her actions," Moscow's investigative committee said in a statement.
News agencies cited an unnamed police source as saying the woman appeared to have been under the influence of psychotropic drugs.
Immigration authorities told media the woman was from the former Soviet republic of Uzbekistan and had been working in Moscow illegally.
TERROR FEARS
With frequent warnings from government officials about the danger that Islamic State militants pose to Russia and a long history of terrorist attacks in Moscow, some onlookers thought they were witnessing an act of terror.
One eyewitness, a reporter from the RBC.ru news portal, said she heard the woman screaming "Allahu Akbar" (Islamic phrase meaning God is Great or Allah is Greater).
"I was on my way to the metro station from home," Polina Nikolskaya, the reporter, told Reuters.
"She was standing near the metro entrance and caught my attention because she was screaming Allahu Akbar. I saw that she had a bloodied head in her arms, but I thought it was not real. People in the crowd said it was real."
Lifenews.ru, an online news portal with close contacts to the police, said a policeman had first approached the woman to check her documents near the Oktyabrskoye Pole metro station in the north-west of the Russian capital.
The woman had responded by removing the child's head from a bag and shouting that she had killed the infant, it said, saying she had also threatened to blow herself up.
Footage of the incident showed a policeman wrestling the woman to the ground before a group of colleagues helped restrain her.
Some rights activists warned of a possible backlash against migrant workers from Central Asia who have in the past been targeted for beatings by far-right groups.
Security services are on high alert for a possible terrorist attack after a Russian passenger plane was blown out of the sky above Egypt in October, killing all 224 people onboard. Islamic State said it was responsible and had acted to avenge the Kremlin's decision to launch air strikes in Syria.
Decapitated in her cot: Horrific details emerge of how burka-clad nanny left four-year-old child's body in her bed before parading through Moscow streets with little girl's head
Eyewitnesses say they saw the woman holding the severed head of a child
She is said to have shouted 'Allahu Akbar' as she appeared close to station
Body of Anastasia Meshcheryakova was found at burnt-out block of flats
Child's nanny Gyulchehra Bobokulova, from Uzbekistan, has been arrested
The four-year-old's body, dressed in night clothes, was found in her cot
Horrific new details of how a nanny beheaded a four-year-old girl and paraded through the streets of Moscow with her severed head have been revealed. The woman, dressed in a burka, threatened to blow herself up as she walked near Oktyabrskoye Pole metro station holding up the little girl's head. Investigators claim she murdered the girl, who is believed to have learning difficulties, after starting a fire at the child's family home in a block of flats. Scroll down for video
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A burka-clad babysitter has been arrested in Moscow after she walked through the streets carrying the severed head of a four-year-old girl
Moscow murder: Medics carry mother 'after she heard tragic news'
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The nanny, Gyulchehra Bobokulova, 38, from Uzbekistan, has been arrested. It is now known that the beheaded remains of the girl, identified as Anastasia (Nastya) Meshcheryakova, were discovered inside her cot. Her body had been dressed in her night clothes, consisting of a T-shirt and shorts. According to local media, Bobokulova shouted in the street: 'I hate democracy. I am a terrorist. I want you dead. 'You have become so hardened, you have eliminated so many of us. Look I am a suicide bomber, I will die, doomsday will come in a second.' She pulled the severed head out of a bag and walked near the metro station entrance in north-west Moscow. RELATED ARTICLES
Video of the dead girl's mother, Ekaterina Meshcheryakova, collapsing in the street upon hearing the horrific news has emerged. She was taken to hospital in an unconscious condition. Anastasia also had a father, Vladimir Meshcheryakov, who is a technician at a mobile phone company, and a brother Konstantin, 15. The main entrance to the block of flats is being guarded by armed police. Eyewitness Alexandra Shuvalova, a student from the capital, said: 'When I got close to the metro, I saw a woman running along the street.
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Eyewitnesses say the woman shouted 'Allahu Akbar' as she appeared near Oktyabrskoye Pole metro station in the northwest of the Russian capital and threatened to blow herself up
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Sources say the babysitter told interrogators she did not want to hide from police, and aimed to draw maximum attention to what she has done
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The woman was seen pulling the severed head out of a bag and walking around near the entrance to the metro station as police moved in
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'I could see that she had hair in her hands or something like that. 'She was waving this thing and screaming something and drawing some shapes in the air. 'This woman either had a birthmark or a wart on her right cheek. It was a distinctive feature because she was dressed in entirely in black. 'I realised it wasn't a wig as I thought initially, but a head - that's why blood was dripping on her shoes and skirt. 'I stopped, had a cigarette, tried to get my breath back to normal because I was so shocked.' She claimed a security guard and two policeman missed the chance to detain her. Alexandra added: 'People ran away from her. I saw five people fleeing. And no one tried to stop her - not security guards at a cafe, nor at a shop. 'One of the guards who saw her, ran to the building to tell someone about her. He didn't try to do anything on his own.'
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The child, who has been identified as Anastasia (Nastya) Meshcheryakova, whose nanny Gyulchehra Bobokulova is thought to have killed her
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The victim was a girl identified as Anastasia (Nastya) Meshcheryakova - and the child's 38-year-old nanny Gyulchehra Bobokulova (left), from Uzbekistan, has been arrested. The girl's mother Ekaterina is pictured right
Woman paces outside Moscow shop carrying 'severed head of child'
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'I heard her yelling 'Allah Akbar' at least three times. And hitting herself on her chest. 'She was yelling something in her language. She ran to a cafe and started shouting: 'It's all you! All you!' According to local reports, she later told police she killed the girl because of her own husband's infidelity. Investigators immediately ordered a psychiatric test of the woman in a bid to understand her motives. One eyewitness at the underground station told MK how the woman screamed: 'My child was killed…I will blow up everyone.' She also shouted: 'I hate democracy'. A journalist working for RBC daily, said she had heard the woman screaming 'Allahu Akbar' (God is Great). 'I was on my way to the metro station from home,' Polina Nikolskaya said. Another witness said the woman shouted that she would 'kill everyone, blow up everyone'. 'She was standing near the metro entrance and caught my attention because she was screaming Allahu Akbar,' she said.
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Mother Ekaterina and father Vladimir Meshcheryakov of four-year-old Anastasia
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The suspect shouted that she had killed the child and was seen praying shortly before officers swooped at Oktyabrskoe Pole
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One eyewitness at the underground station told MK how the woman (pictured left and right holding the severed head) screamed: 'I will blow up everyone'
Dramatic footage shows woman holding child's head captured
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'I saw that she had a bloodied head in her arms, but I thought it was not real. People in the crowd said it was real.'
Some said the woman had paced up and down for some 20 minutes before she was detained near the station. In further footage from the scene, the woman can be heard shouting about the end of the world while proclaiming herself a terrorist. The station was closed to passengers for some time, but no explosives were found on her. Another eyewitness said: 'She came to the entrance of the metro station Oktyabrskoye Pole with a red bag, from which she pulled out the child's head. I could see that she had hair in her hands or something like that. 'She was waving this thing and screaming something and drawing some shapes in the air...I realised it wasn't a wig as I thought initially, but a head - that's why blood was dripping on her shoes and skirt Eyewitness Alexandra Shuvalova
'She walked down the street for a long time and was shouting something. But no one challenged her. Everyone was afraid.' Dramatic footage shows the moment police sprinted in towards the woman and tackled her to the ground. Emergency services had earlier been called to an apartment nearby amid reports of black smoke billowing out of windows. Firefighters rescued four people and put out the blaze - but then found the child's beheaded body Witness Alyona Kuratova told independent Dozhd TV that the woman was holding the head by its hair. Kuratova described scenes of chaos, with police cars and ambulances arriving at the scene and some people yelling: 'terror attack, terror attack.' She said she could not make out what the woman shouted but some media reported that she yelled 'Allah Akbar''- Arabic for 'God is greatest' - and threatened to blow herself up.
Investigators claim that the babysitter waited until she was alone with the child in the apartment before carrying out the murder and starting a fire.
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Dramatic footage shows the moment police sprinted in towards the woman and tackled her to the ground
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The woman was surrounded by police officers and bundled to the ground during the dramatic arrest in Moscow
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Emergency services had earlier been called to an apartment nearby amid reports of black smoke billowing out windows
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Firefighters rescued four people and put out the blaze - but then found the child's beheaded body
A source in the Investigative committee told TASS: 'She waited until the parents with the elder child left the flat, then for unknown reason she killed the child, set fire to the apartment and left the scene. 'She was detained at the metro station Oktyabrskoe Pole.'
The dead girl, who is said to have had learning difficulties and could not walk. Her family, from the Oryol region, was renting the apartment. She suffered damage because of birth problems in August 2011. The family took her for treatment to China - and were saving money to travel for subsequent care in Germany. The parents told police the nanny had been working for them for 18 months. Sources say the babysitter told interrogators she did not want to hide from police, and aimed to draw maximum attention to what she has done.
She had not intended to ignite the flat deliberately and destroy evidence, she said, according to the source, and wanted the parents to know who had killed their daughter. The woman had a valid residency permit for Russia but was working illegally. She had no work permit, said officials.
The nanny faces up to 20 years in jail if she is deemed psychologically fit to stand trial. This afternoon, the investigation was taken over by the FSB, Russia's powerful domestic secret service, once headed by Vladimir Putin. Police are not currently treating the incident as terrorism.
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Police descended on the scene as an investigation got underway at the metro station in the wake of the arrest
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Detectives cordoned off the station to investigate. The nanny faces up to 20 years in jail if she is deemed psychologically fit to stand trial.
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A Russian police officer stands at the site where a woman suspected of murdering a young child was detained
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Employees of the Russian Investigative Committee near an entrance to Oktyabrskoye Station
LifeNews claimed: 'Investigators suspect that Gulchekhra had manic psychosis developing for a period of time.' A law enforcement source said the woman was suspected of handling 'explosive elements' at the flat which was engulfed in flames. But 'it might be an inflammable liquid that she used to set the apartment on fire where she killed four-year-old Nastya M.' The security services are hunting for the woman's husband. A source said she may have been on 'light drugs'. Russia's children's rights commissioner Pavel Astakhov called the killing 'Monstrous and inexplicable', urging parents to carefully check on the mental state of nannies when they are hired
By Vasily Kolotilov, Mikhail Fishman
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A child's illustration shows an angel among flowers outside a subway station in Moscow, Mar. 1, 2016.
A woman brandishes the severed head of a child, shouts “Allah Akbar,” and threatens to blow herself up. The gruesome scene observed in northwest Moscow on Feb. 29, would have dominated television screens in any other country. In Russia, however, no major network mentioned the incident.
The woman was later identified as Gyulchekhra Bobokulova, a 38-year-old national of Uzbekistan, a former Soviet republic in Central Asia. When confessing to the murder of the handicapped 4-year-old girl she had been caring for, Bobokulova said she had done it on “Allah’s orders.”
While it is premature to rule out terrorist links, initial impressions point to an act of madness rather than an organized attack. Interfax agency reported that Bobokulova had been diagnosed with a mental disorder, referring to sources within Uzbekistan law enforcement authorities.
After the shocking video was released online, it took the Kremlin a couple of hours to react. When it did, it moved to remove the subject from public dialogue. Its major concern, as later became apparent, was to avoid an uncontrollable backlash against migrants.
The official Kremlin position was denial that they had issued an order to television chiefs. “The channels decided themselves not to show crazy people,” Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman was quoted as saying. “But we support them.”
A source close to the Kremlin confirmed to The Moscow Times that television managers “automatically check” with the Kremlin on such matters.
The following day the entrance to the Oktyabrskoye Pole metro station, the scene of the crime, became not only a makeshift memorial but also a meeting point for far-right activists plotting revenge.
The authorities were waiting for them.
“When I arrived I was immediately spotted and approached by law enforcement agents,” says Dmitry Dyomushkin, a far-right politician and a former leader of the disbanded “Russkiye” movement. “They told me to leave or be arrested.”
Dyomushkin says that he received phone calls from law enforcement and “people close to presidential administration.” “They urged me to use my influence to calm down others so that no one would take to the streets,” he said.
Far-right activists have never been far out of the authorities sights. The Kremlin fears ethnic riots like those on Manezh Square in 2010 or the pogrom in the southern Moscow suburb of Biryulyovo in 2013.
“Putin understands riots could have very unpredictable consequences,” says Alexander Verkhovsky, a leading authority on Russian nationalism.
Syria makes the situation more dangerous. Russia’s military actions, which have been advertised widely on national television, were specifically designed to work as a source of national mobilization. But they were only meant for television screens, depicting a far-off land.
“The security concept was built on the idea of the fight being a long way away,” confirms the close-to-Kremlin source. “Moscow is another story.”
The source suggested that not even the complete blackout of this story eliminated the risk of wider social destabilization.
Segments of Russian Internet are already full of outrage and resentment. On March 1, the Moscow branch of the Communist Party launched a “stop migration” website, with blunt anti-immigration messages accompanied by an icon of a woman in a burka brandishing a decapitated head.
Kremlin officials have this story on the same desk as news from Syria, says political analyst Gleb Pavlovsky, and they are “desperately afraid” of the parallels that might arise.
The censorship in this case, he says, is comparable to the initial silence of the authorities in regards the terror attack on the Russian passenger over Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Oct. 31 — killing all 224 aboard. Russian authorities admitted it was a terror attack on Nov. 16, days after it was publicly confirmed by security services in Britain and the United States.
According to media analyst Vasily Gatov, the Kremlin has been rendered helpless by its own national propaganda and war discourse. “Broadcasting this type of news even in a neutral way can lead to emotions that cannot be programmed.”
The Kremlin is falling victim to its own agenda — with frustration in Russian society straining for release, like steam in a pressure cooker, and whatever the Kremlin does, the heat keeps rising.
One cannot imagine more effective fuel than the image of a decapitated young girl.
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