Muslims in Moscow have started raising money for the parents of the killed girl – BBC Russian

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Image caption Donations are planning to gather during Friday prayers

Spiritual Administration of Moscow Muslims announced the start fundraising for a family four-year girl in the brutal murder of a suspected her babysitter.

The collection will be held in mosques and communities of Moscow during Friday prayers, which brings together thousands of Muslims. Then, the money will give the family of the dead girl.

According to news agencies, the Spiritual Administration of Muslims is positioning this action as a “symbol of spiritual unity in the face of the whole family grief and just shocked to the depths of Russian society”.

The department also deplored the fact that “goes beyond all limits of human morality” presented crime “as a perfect man, identifying themselves to the Islamic religion”.

The murder took place on February 29th. According to investigators, who arrived from Uzbekistan Gyulchehra Bobokulova, who worked in Moscow as a nanny, waited until her parents trust will go to work and then killed her.

Investigators believe that the suspect then set fire to the apartment and left. She soon attracted the attention of passers-by at metro “October field” that went along with the child’s head in the hands of the street, shouting “Allah Akbar” and threatened to blow himself up.

A woman was detained by police. Presnensky court of Moscow arrested her until 29 April. At the court hearing the woman confessed to the crime and said that the girl killed her, “Allah has ordered”.