Supreme Court donat horse. Mom of Donat Skakun: “My son says that the situation in the colony is normal, time flies by very quickly

Two years ago, this case shook the country. Donat Skakun, a student at the capital's gymnasium, was detained for attacking a teacher.

Despite the fact that the knife with which the teacher was wounded was never found, and there were many strange inconsistencies in the case materials, which were noticed by both lawyers and human rights activists, Donat was given eight years in prison.

The “Belarusian Partisan” asked how the guy, who is now serving his sentence in the Bobruisk correctional colony, was doing.

There is no special news yet,” said Donat’s mother Alina. - We're sitting. My lawyers and I are trying to do something, but so far I can’t say that there is any concrete result.

- How often can you see your son?

We have a scheduled dating schedule. On average, it turns out that a short date is scheduled once every month and a half. And they allow an even longer period, when one of the parents spends a day with the child.

How is Donat feeling?

It seems to be holding up. He writes letters to us all the time.

There was a huge wave of support for Donat, even strangers those who were touched by this story sent him letters...

And now they write too! The son maintains relationships with many people whom he has never seen or known before, and now regularly corresponds with them. It seems to me that this external support is also very important. She, in my opinion, gives him the strength to hold on, fuels him. It’s clear that not all letters are delivered, but this is, let’s say, a human factor.

-- Do classmates contact him?

Yes, I still have friends from school. In this regard, everything is good. Donat calls us periodically. These are very short conversations, but we always look forward to them.

- What about studies?

Everything seems to be fine. Now the quarter grades were supposed to be given, but we don’t know about the results yet - Donat promised to write about everything. My health also seems to be holding up well. Although, to be honest, even if something is not very good, he still won’t tell us. My son tries not to worry us again, not to cause trouble. He always says that everything is fine with him.

— Does the colony’s leadership tell you anything about him?

We don’t communicate with the authorities, but when we come either for a program or on a date, we can always talk with the head of the detachment, with the teachers. They make contact well and say that there are no questions for the child.

- Alina, during all this time that Donat has been in the colony, has he complained about anything?

Never and no matter what! Don’t worry, he says, I’m fine. He is probably an optimist among us - I want to believe in it. Otherwise, I probably wouldn’t have survived...

— This year, Donat’s classmates are entering colleges and universities...

And Donat has just finished 10th grade. When he got to the pre-trial detention center, there were problems with passing the exams - in the pre-trial detention center they were not allowed to take them, and he lost time. Fortunately, unlike the capital’s gymnasium No. 74, at the colony school the teachers and management treated him well and helped him pass the exams as an external student. By the way, it was successful.

As for plans for the future, we hope that after finishing 11th grade, Donat will be able to obtain a higher education remotely.

- Are lawyers visiting Donat?

Now that we have the opportunity to meet with our son, lawyers do not go to the colony. But they continue to do business. We haven’t gone through all the courts yet, and we continue to appeal the verdict. We will use absolutely every opportunity.

We want to get answers to all our questions, but, unfortunately, this is not possible yet...

Former student of Gymnasium 74 Donat Skakun was sentenced to eight years in prison for attacking a Russian language teacher. It would seem that the criminal has been found, and . But on social networksthe controversy continues about whether Donatus is actually guilty. More and more questions are being asked, the answers to which, unfortunately, were not given by either the investigation or the court.

Donat Skakun in the hall of the Minsk City Court before the announcement of the verdict

A year ago in Minsk gymnasium No. 74. A teacher of Russian language and literature was attacked. In crime reports, information appeared that a student tried to stab a teacher because she gave him a low grade. The victim, police said, was taken to intensive care. And the guy was detained right in the gymnasium.

From the first day the case was closed to the public. All court participants signed a non-disclosure agreement. But after the verdict was announced, the information was leaked to social networks.

1. What happened in the gymnasium according to the teacher?

May 23 was a regular school day. The school year was ending, so children who wanted to improve their grades had to “pull up their tails.” In the 9th "B" class, where Donat studied, the first lesson was Russian, but since part of the class had gone on an excursion to Russia the day before, the children were allowed to come to the second lesson - physical education.

Teacher Valentina Gubarevich I arrived at the gymnasium at eight in the morning. First a colleague came into her office, then a student Donat Skakun. He had debts on poems.

Russian language and literature teacher Valentina Gubarevich in court

The boy entered the classroom, put down his briefcase and, as the teacher thought, began to take out a textbook from his bag. However, Valentina Vladimirovna suddenly felt pain in the neck area. The high school student attacked her with a knife. Moreover, the attack took place in two stages. After several blows, Donat left the class, the knife remained on the table. Then he returned to the office and hit the victim several more times, after which he put the knife in his backpack and left.

The first person the victim called was her daughter. Valentina Vladimirovna called her twice. The daughter called an ambulance, and she reported the incident to her mother’s colleagues. The director and head teacher came running into the classroom. An ambulance and the police arrived next. The teacher managed to repeat several times that she was attacked by a gymnasium student, Donat Skakun. After this, the woman was taken to the hospital.

An important point is that there were no direct eyewitnesses to what happened between the teacher and the high school student.

2. What happened in the gymnasium according to the student?

Donat, as usual, was brought to lessons by his mother. He forgot that the first lesson was canceled, so he arrived at eight in the morning. On the spot, he decided to find out whether Gubarevich had come to work to give her the poems by heart, for which he had a debt.

He saw that Valentina Vladimirovna had another teacher in her office and decided to come in later. However, when he tried to do this, the teacher told him that she was busy and that he should come and answer at another time.

Donat went to the classroom and met the teacher on the way French, talked to her. The teacher said that his classmate was sitting on the second floor and was bored.

Donat went down to him, and together they went for a walk around the school. At the stadium, a guy injured his hand - he caught the fence when he wanted to pass. His friend saw this.

School stadium

Returning to school, the children saw that the police were entering Gubarevich’s office on the third floor. Other teachers stood nearby. Friends asked what happened, but no one knew anything.

The guys went to the locker room. There, Skakun received a call from his father - he was told over the phone that Donat had attacked someone at the gymnasium. At nine in the morning the guy was detained along with a classmate with whom he was walking around the stadium. The friend was released that same evening, but Donat never returned home.

3. Did you want to kill for a bad grade in literature?

According to official data, the motive for the crime was revenge for a biased assessment. It's about about several bad marks that the guy received for not being able to memorize a poem correctly. The relationship with the teacher was indeed strained; Hubarevich called the student’s mother to school.

Donat Skakun was not a poor student or an excellent student, he studied above average. In Gubarevich’s subjects, he scored mostly “sevens” and “eights.” The guy took assessments quite calmly and if he got low scores, he didn’t make a tragedy out of it. He did not plan to enroll after the 9th grade, so it is unlikely that he was very interested in the average score on the certificate. The exact sciences were more interesting to him than the humanities.

By the way, he had no problems with poems on Belarusian literature. Just like with a foreign language, where you also often need to learn “topics”.

Those who know Donat and saw him that day cannot believe that he could commit this crime. Calm, responsive, balanced and even slow - this is how his friends characterize the teenager.

He behaved normally, was not worried and did not attract attention in any way - those who saw the guy in the gymnasium during the first lesson, when the attack on the teacher, spoke about his condition on May 23.

The teenager's condition changed only when his father called him and said that he was suspected of committing a crime. Hearing this, Donat widened his eyes in surprise.

4. Where is the knife with which they tried to kill the teacher?

On May 25, that is, two days after the tragedy, the Minister of Internal Affairs announced that law enforcement officers had found the crime weapon.

"The knife was found,- said Igor Shunevich. - The handle, the blade are sharpened... The knife consists of this. The child had the knife.”

But in fact, the knife with which they tried to kill Valentina Gubarevich was not found.

The operative part of the verdict, which the judge read out in front of journalists, said that the knife blade, discovered and seized on May 24 (the day after the assassination - ed.) during an inspection at 8 Artillery Street, should be destroyed.

The gymnasium is located at Artilleristov, 15, that is, on opposite side streets. The knife blade was found near an office building where access control is in effect.

The building where the knife blade was found

However, this find has nothing in common with the knife that was used to kill the teacher. The victim herself described the weapon differently.

It turns out that there is no key evidence in the case, although law enforcement officers carefully examined both the gymnasium and the surrounding area, using sniffer dogs.

A friend who wandered around the stadium with Donat before classes said that he did not see him hide or throw away the knife during the walk. The guys have not separated since the moment they met.

5. Why didn’t anyone notice the blood on Donat’s clothes?

Several people saw Donat at the gymnasium on the morning of May 23. However, no one noticed that the guy behaved suspiciously and that there were traces of blood on his clothes after, according to the investigation, he tried to kill the teacher.

The student's belongings were carefully examined by specialists. At the same time, the shoes arrived for examination in an open package. When examining the backpack, where, according to the teacher, Donat threw the bloody knife, no blood was found. However, in court it turned out that there was no protocol for examining the backpack in the case at all, so this item was not considered as evidence.

Witnesses did not see blood on Donat’s clothes, but, according to experts, there were traces of blood on the guy’s jacket, trousers, shirt and shoes, which could come from Gubarevich.

Skakun's defense tried to convey that the blood on the guy's clothes appeared after his things were packed by a police officer, who had previously helped move Hubarevich, that is, he had contact with her body, where there was blood. But this argument was considered far-fetched.

6. Why was a 15-year-old boy forced to write a confession?

Donat was detained half an hour after the attempt was made on the teacher. His parents immediately came to the gymnasium, the father and his son went to the police station.

Donat Skakun's parents

At the police department, the father was told to go for an examination, and when he returned, he was no longer allowed to see the child. The lawyer, who spent almost seven hours in the police station, was not allowed to see the teenager.

The first interrogation was scheduled for eight in the evening of the same day, but the lawyer advised against it, since Donat looked exhausted and exhausted.

The next day, the family learned that the schoolboy had written a confession that night. According to the guy, he wrote what the investigator dictated to him. The family was told that Donat must now repeat all this on camera.

Donat was 15 years old at the time of interrogation. They had no right to interrogate him at night, and even without the participation of a lawyer, one of the parents, a teacher or a psychologist. The investigator was well aware of this, but this did not stop him. In court, he stated that the student voluntarily wrote a sincere confession. By the way, they also did not have the right to call the investigator to court, since by law he cannot be a witness.

After such methods of investigation, Donat decided to refuse to testify. However, it is known that the young man passed a polygraph.

“There is a certificate in the file that, according to the results of a polygraph test, no information of significance in this criminal case was obtained,”- told "Euroradio" Donat's mother.

The victim teacher refused to take a polygraph. Let us note that taking a lie detector test is a right, not an obligation, of a participant in the process.

7. Why was the investigative experiment not carried out?

Donat Skakun was accused of making an attempt on Valentina Gubarevich between 08:00 and 08:40. However, the video cameras installed in the gymnasium show that at 08:30 he had already gone outside with a friend.

In court, the period of the crime was reduced - from 08:13 to 08:30 minutes. But there are discrepancies here too.

At 08:30 Donat and his friend had already left the school. According to the friend, Skakun approached him at approximately 08:20. Hubarevich called her daughter at 08:24 for the first time and at 08:30 for the second time to report the attack.

The Russian language room is located on the third floor. The horse needed time to meet a friend on the second floor, talk to him, walk around the school, and only after that go down together to the first floor and go outside.

Many also raised questions about why the teacher did not immediately dial 103 and why she did not resist the attacker - none of the witnesses heard screams or noise from the struggle. Acquaintances describe Donat as a slow and calm person, Valentina Vladimirovna as a fighting and confident woman.

Perhaps some contradictions would have been resolved if an investigative experiment had been carried out. For crimes involving an attempt on human life, this is common practice.

Donat's mother stated that there was such a petition, but the investigator rejected it. The case file did not even contain a plan for the gymnasium.

8. What was the general situation like during Gubarevich’s lessons and what did they think about her at the gymnasium?

Valentina Gubarevich is an experienced teacher, she is 58 years old. Everyone who knows her unanimously says that she is a demanding teacher. Gubarevich’s qualifications did not raise any questions; her students won competitions. But the methods she used in the lessons are assessed ambiguously.

Firstly, she regularly raised her voice at the children. During the lesson I could say: “I will not work with unmotivated children!” or "Between me and you (student - ed.) the director will choose me! Some children were simply afraid to go to her lessons, because she was a person of mood - she could shout and give an unfair grade.

Secondly, she practiced seating children “according to knowledge.” That is, in her classes the guys sat differently than usual. Valentina Vladimirovna explained this by saying that motivated students needed to be grouped in one place so that she could give them tasks of a more complex level. The children made conclusions for themselves about who is “smart” and who is “stupid.”

However, most often conflicts arose with the guys who wanted high grades, but did not want to work hard. In this case, their parents needed grades more.

There was one more episode. Hubarevich let the children leave their lessons so that they could take the money collected for the excursion to the travel agency where her daughter worked. That is, two schoolchildren across the city carried over a thousand USD on public transport. And management was aware of this scheme.

According to parents whose children studied at the 74th gymnasium, they repeatedly complained about the Russian language teacher and to the class teacher, and the director. But the administration tried to smooth things over; teachers were not replaced.

“Throughout the entire proceedings, my lawyer and I asked the court for mercy and leniency towards the young man,”- Valentina Hubarevich said after the verdict was announced.

The teenager was indeed given the minimum possible punishment under his article - eight years in prison in a correctional colony. But the victim, according to Donat’s mother, asked to give him 11 years.

According to her, neither Donat nor his parents asked her for forgiveness. At the same time, the schoolboy’s family paid the teacher $23,000 in compensation even before the end of the trial.

9. Why was Donat’s case considered behind closed doors?

According to the law, closed court hearings are permitted in cases of crimes committed by persons under 16 years of age. Donat was 15 years old at the beginning of the trial.

The parents and the accused himself did not insist on a closed trial and hoped that the trial would take place in the open.

10. If Donat is not guilty, then who attacked the teacher?

From the first minutes when they began to help her, Valentina Gubarevich called only one last name - Skakun. And this was the only version on which the investigation worked.

Although in Donat’s support groups there are other options: that another student could have attacked her, and that the attacker could not have been a high school student at all, and even that the teacher could have injured herself.

It's hard to believe that someone dared to falsify a case against a 15-year-old teenager. But if a person is charged with such serious charges, and Part 2 of Art. 139 is called the “execution article”, the evidence must be indisputable. In the case of the high school student, many questions, unfortunately, remained unanswered.

The case of Donat Skakun will still be considered Supreme Court, where the complaint against the verdict was received.

For the attempted murder of a teacher of Russian language and literature, he passed the 9th grade exams in the Bobruisk educational colony with three grades.

We believe that this is a great merit to the school and the educational colony. Everything worked out thanks to the director of this school, we are sincerely grateful to him. He told Donat that we should write another application to the Ministry of Education - Donat was allowed to take the exam. He tried very hard, prepared and was worried - he wanted everything to work out,” says Alina, the guy’s mother.

Let us remind you that the emergency happened in gymnasium No. 74 in Minsk in May 2016. According to investigators, that morning, 9th grade student Donat Skakun entered the classroom, closed the door behind him and inflicted 17 knife wounds on Russian language and literature teacher Valentina Gubarevich. The former high school student was sentenced in April 2017. appeal The Supreme Court reviewed it in September and upheld the verdict. All this time, Donat Skakun was in a pre-trial detention center and tried to pass exams.

We had the investigator’s permission, the pre-trial detention center was ready to provide us with a room, but we were denied permission from the 74th gymnasium,” recalls Alina. - We are very glad that now everything has finally worked out.

Philologist Svetlana Bogush from Minsk helped Donat prepare for language exams - she wrote him a letter to the colony and offered her help.

I was very touched by this story, I wanted to support the boy in such a situation. But I didn’t want to write a banal “hang in there” - I started thinking about what exactly I could do for Donat, and the idea arose to help him prepare for language exams. I wrote a letter with this proposal, and he agreed.

Svetlana says that she herself did not fully understand how the training would take place, but in the end everything worked out.

I sent assignments, Donat did them, I checked them, sorted out errors and sent new assignments. Donat began and ended each of his letters with words of gratitude. I am very glad that he passed all his exams with flying colors, but I don’t think that I had anything to do with this - he is a very capable and smart boy.

Donat writes 4-5 letters to parents a week. He says that he likes it at school - there, according to him, there are good teachers.

He says that time flies by very quickly. At first I even thought that the lessons were not 45, but 30 minutes long,” laughs Alina, the mother of a teenager. - Donat plans to get a specialty in the colony: they have a vocational school, by the summer he will decide where he will enroll, and says that he can even get several specialties in time. He and his dad really loved working with wood - so, if it works out, he will go to study to become a carpenter.

Alina says that Donat is busy all day: in the morning he goes to work, then to school, or vice versa. And in the evening the son writes letters, time flies by.

“For us, every day is hard, it drags on for a long time,” the interlocutor says quietly. - A month ago we had a four-hour date. Donat said that the situation in the colony was normal, the guys were good - he met some of them back in the pre-trial detention center. They helped him adapt and treated him well. It is clear that he is trying to protect us from some worries. But I think it’s quite difficult for him. Many letters are written to him, and strangers, classmates, and teachers support him.

Now the parents are waiting for a response from the Supreme Court to the supervisory complaint.

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The entire accusation is based only on the words of the teacher. Donat's fingerprints were not found, the blood found belonged to an unidentified man and woman, Donat passed a polygraph - according to the polygraph, he was not involved in the crime, the teacher refused to take the polygraph. Testimony of witnesses: classmates, their parents, teachers - all in favor of Donat, there is no crime weapon in the case, no blood was found in the backpack into which Donat allegedly threw the knife. Despite this, on April 7 Minsk City Court sentenced Donat to eight years of imprisonment in a correctional colony under Part 1 of Art. 14 and paragraphs. 6, 10 hours 2 tbsp. 139 CC(attempted murder of a person in connection with professional activities).

“Many Belarusians have heard about the incident that occurred in the 74th gymnasium in Minsk on May 23, 2016. Then I sadly thought, how do you need to get a student so that he attacks the teacher with a knife? And now, almost a year later, we learn about the sentence: 8 years in prison. Well, they got the kid, he lost his temper and acted up. Got a deadline. It would be possible not to touch upon this topic if we did not delve into the details of what happened. And many Belarusians, also without delving into the essence of what is happening, condemn this act and the boy himself. But I want to shout to the whole world: people, don’t believe it! Donat Skakun is not involved in what happened in this gymnasium on the morning of May 23, 2016. Having studied the materials available to me, analyzed the situation and conducted a small investigation, I can say with confidence that Donat was not at the scene of the incident! And I know two people who know exactly what happened that morning of May 23. I understand that my team and I are challenging the system, but you can’t argue against the facts. On this site we will publish everything that the investigation hid, and how the court behaved! All details will be made public. Let’s not let an innocent boy go to jail so easily!”- wrote on his page former political prisoner Mikalai Autukhovich

Civil activists, caring people take pictures with the poster #Donat_nevininoven or #Danat_nevinovaty and post the photo in social media with the hashtag of the same name.

Two days ago, the Supreme Court made its decision in the case of an attack on a teacher at gymnasium No. 74. The verdict of the Minsk City Court came into force: 8 years in prison. However, many questions remain in the attack case. Since the trial was closed, the public never heard the answers. The Investigative Committee, as promised, today revealed the details of the investigation into the case.

Experts: “His blood and the blood of the victim were found on Skakun’s clothes”

- Next are the facts. In the presence of the defense attorney, Donat Skakun's hands were washed off. Then the teenager’s clothes and shoes were confiscated. These items were packaged in special packaging, sealed and supplied explanatory note with the signatures of the participants in the investigative action. I would like to note that the investigator who carried out these actions did not take part in the inspection of the crime scene and did not have contact with Gubarevich. Next, examinations were scheduled for all subjects.

It should be noted that the integrity of the packaging was not compromised before the examination. According to the conclusions of biological-genetic and medical-forensic examinations, it was established that blood washes from Skakun’s left hand were formed as a result of mixing biological material from Gubarevich and Skakun. Traces of splashes, please note, splashes of blood on the shirt, jacket, trousers and shoes were formed as a result of the fall of flying blood particles. Blood stains in the form of smears and prints on the shirt and shoes were formed as a result of dynamic and static contact with a surface covered with liquid blood. Traces of blood on the jacket, shirt, jacket and shoes came from Gubarevich. The genetic study also established that individual traces of blood on Skakun’s jacket could have been formed as a result of mixing biological material from the blood of Gubarevich and Skakun.

- Traces of splashes and blood stains in the form of smears and prints were found on the clothes of the accused Skakun, - says GCSE representative Oleg Kul. - Blood spatter occurs either when an object covered in liquid blood is swung, or when a surface covered in liquid blood is struck, or when blood spurts from damaged vessels (usually arteries or arterioles). His blood and the blood of the victim were found on Skakun's clothes. No damage was found on Skakun’s clothing (not related to the use of the clothing).

- They say that there was no blood on the table, although it should have been there, - journalists noticed.

- There was blood on the desk, the floor and walls of the auditorium, on the magazine, on the young man’s suit,- investigators noted.

SK: Donat deliberately formed an alibi

- The mixing of blood, which I already mentioned, allowed the investigation to believe that the accused was injured, - continued Evgeny Arkhireev. - An abrasion was detected on the palmar surface of the middle phalanx of the fourth finger of the right hand. Skakun explained to the police who arrived at the scene that he had injured his finger the day before when he climbed over the school fence. Moreover, the injury on his hand was visually fresh. The investigation inspected the fence of the gymnasium and found traces of blood. It was examined by experts and confirmed: the blood belonged to Skakun.

- Analysis of the collected evidence allowed us to conclude that Skakun, after committing the crime, decided to leave the territory of the gymnasium in order to get rid of the crime weapon, - added Arkhireev. - And also imitate, in the presence of an outsider, the circumstances of receiving an existing injury. This conclusion was confirmed by the testimony of a classmate whom he met at the gymnasium.

Donat insistently, no less than seven times, asked to go for a walk with him, although he did not want to do this. The two of them walked around the nearby dormitories and walked along the outer fence of the gymnasium. Then we came to a break in the fence near the school stadium. While passing through the fence, Donat deliberately grabbed the fence with his hand, and when he removed his hand, he reported that he got caught and injured his finger. Indeed, Donat's blood remained on the fence.

- It is difficult to call these actions of the teenager anything other than the deliberate formation of an alibi,- concluded Evgeny Arkhireev. - To complete the picture, I would like to note that Gubarevich’s blood was found on Skakun’s backpack.

Father of Donat Skakun

What was the student's motive?

- The investigation established that Donat Skakun on the morning of May 23, 2016, in room 317 of gymnasium No. 74, carried out the intent to kill the teacher of Russian language and literature Valentina Gubarevich out of a sense of revenge allegedly for a biased assessment of knowledge, the requirement to retake the reading of Lermontov’s poem by heart, calling his mother to school for conversation with the teacher, - investigators noted. - With particular cruelty, he inflicted at least 17 blows with a knife and a hard blunt object on various parts of the victim’s body. Including vital organs - head, neck and chest. As a result, the victim suffered injuries of varying severity. Skakun was unable to complete his plan due to the fact that the victim resisted him and also called her relatives and reported what had happened. And also because of the timely provision of qualified medical care.

- How did you know that the motive was revenge, since he studied Russian literature well? - the journalists clarified.

- The motive was established as a result of a complex of investigative actions with the participation of Hubarevich and Donat Skakun’s parents, classmates and other persons, - noted Evgeniy Arkhireev. - This is a compilation of all the data that we have collected.

- When giving Donat an A in Russian literature for a quarter average rating his certificate was 8.4. This is a high score with which Donat would not have any questions about moving to the next class. At the same time, the teacher gave him an eight in his diary for the quarter, increasing his grade. So where is the motive for revenge? - journalists asked a question.

- Hubarevich gave me the opportunity to retake the poem. If he had not done this, he would have received two deuces, - added Arkhireev.

- But they appeared. And taking into account these two bad marks, he had an average score of 8.4...

- We will not discuss issues of the Ministry of Education,- noted the representative of the Investigative Committee. - The teacher, through Donat, invited the accused’s mother to school. Donat did not convey the information to his mother. Based on what was established during the investigation, he was worried about his academic performance and the possible measures that his parents could apply to him as a result of his decline in academic performance. This is his testimony, his classmates and the gymnasium workers.

Teacher of Russian language and literature Valentina Gubarevich

The teacher returned to work very quickly, why were the injuries classified as minor?

- The bodily injuries that Gubarevich had (cut wounds to the face, neck, as well as abrasions) were classified as mild during the initial assessment, - noted SSSE representative Oleg Kul. - Upon further additional examination (six months later), it was found that the wounds on the face and neck resulted in scars. They were considered indelible because surgery was necessary to remove them. According to the law, such injuries have signs of grievous bodily harm.

Was Donat Skakun sane?

- In June last year, a psychological and psychiatric examination of Donat Skakun was carried out, - Oleg Kul answers. - According to its results, Donat did not have any mental disorders neither during the attack nor during the examination. Psychiatrists ruled out painful motivation.

- Skakun refused to express his attitude to the accusation and testify on the merits of the accusation. He maintained a similar position throughout the entire criminal investigation - adds Evgeny Arkhireev. - Skakun’s guilt has been proven by voiced and other evidence obtained during the investigation. The prosecutor's office and the court assessed the evidence collected by the investigation.

State prosecutor in the case of Donat Skakun

Could the teacher be lying?

- The victim’s testimony about the commission of a crime by Skakun was carefully checked during the investigation and compared with other evidence. The investigation believes that her testimony is consistent, logical and truthful,- Arkhireev emphasized. - Bleeding in the gymnasium office, the teacher initially informed her colleagues from the gymnasium and the doctors who arrived at the crime scene that the attack was committed by a student named Skakun.

- Were there any doubts about her testimony?

- The investigation had no doubts about the sincerity, truthfulness, or completeness of Gubarevich’s testimony,- assured the deputy head of the department of the Investigative Committee of Belarus in Minsk. - The teacher was interrogated several times.

In Donat's support group, a chronology of events was outlined, according to which the student could not have time to attack the teacher. This is true?

- We made a chronology of events and reconstructed it based on surveillance cameras at the school and interrogations of persons in the criminal case, - says Evgeniy Arkhireev. - What is installed? At 8:12 Donat came to the gymnasium and at 8:30 he and his classmate left it. We assume that during this period of time he committed the crime. This is confirmed by the testimony of persons interrogated in the criminal case and the analysis of information from the telephone connections of the participants in the process. We made our timing at the initial stage of the investigation.

- Can you elaborate?

- I won’t go into more detail. I think that's enough.

The accused had two lawyers

Why did the student write a sincere confession without a psychologist, legal representative or lawyer?

- Indeed, the document, which Donat Skakun called a sincere confession, was written by him on the day of the crime. He wrote this document voluntarily, with his own hand, without any coercion from investigators. He confirmed these three premises during interrogation using video recordings in the presence of a defense lawyer (his father), as well as a teacher,- noted Evgeny Arkhireev. - According to the Code of Criminal Procedure, the presence of a legal representative and a teacher is necessary during investigative actions. Writing statements, petitions, so-called sincere confessions is not an investigative action. Therefore, it was a fact of the suspect’s will.

- Was it written under dictation? - the journalists clarified.

- No, - representatives of the Investigative Committee responded. - He also explained that no one dictated the text to him. He confirmed this himself in front of his legal representatives. This document the investigation in no way regarded it as evidence of guilt and did not include it in the list of evidence in procedural documents.

So, did they find the knife with which Donat stabbed him?

- At the beginning of the investigation, it was stated that the knife with which the blows were committed was found. Then we found out that it was the wrong knife. So was he found or not?- journalists asked a question.

- As a result of the search activities, the knife that was mentioned in the media was actually found - noted Evgeniy Arkhireev. - However, after a forensic examination, it turned out that this knife was not related to the event under investigation and was not a crime weapon.

- Has the knife used in the attack been found?

- The knife was not found.

Teacher's lawyer Anna Dakutko

- In order to determine whether the injury was caused by one or the other instrument of crime, it is necessary that the instrument of injury itself be present - noted the representative of the SSSE. - The crime weapon was not delivered to us. This means that it was necessary to inflict experimental damage, but, as you yourself understand, no one will cut a living person, so such studies could not be carried out.

- How did she herself describe this weapon?

“She said it was a knife,” added Arkhireev.

- At the announcement of the verdict, we heard that a knife blade was found at Artillery Street, 8. This is the building opposite the gymnasium. What kind of knife blade is this if the investigation determined that the knife was not found? - the journalists clarified.

- I have already said that a knife was found, which, as it turned out, did not belong to the materials of the criminal case. And the court, guided by the provisions of the criminal procedure legislation, made a decision regarding a subject not related to the criminal case,- concluded Evgeniy Arkhireev.

Donat took a polygraph, and the polygraph seemed to confirm that he did not want to kill the teacher?

- You incorrectly interpret the results of a polygraph survey. And due to the insignificant physiological reactions to the questions, it was not possible to answer categorically whether he was involved in committing a crime or not,- noted the law enforcement officers.

- The polygraph is used in operational work, but this is a recommendation,- added by Yulia Goncharova .

Donat Skakun's mother Alina Zenkovich

Why didn't they conduct an investigative experiment?

- It is possible to conduct an investigative experiment according to the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure to reproduce any events, - answered Evgeny Arkhireev. - Donat Skakun did not testify, and therefore no investigative experiment was carried out. The mechanism of wound formation was established based on the testimony of the victims and expert studies.

On this day, four more people had to submit a poem. Did you suspect anyone else?

- No, it was not. One person was charged. I assume that you are talking about accomplices, but as a result of the investigation, only Donat Skakun was charged, - noted Arkhireev. - No objective information was received during the investigation that the crime was committed by a group of people. All versions were considered, but the working version was that Donat Skakun was guilty.