“VKontakte”: “group of death” are locked forever with no right of appeal – Вести.Ru

In Solnechnogorsk arrested 21-year-old Philip Bodaken. His actions affected at least 20 teenagers. Under the pseudonym Philip Fox it in the so-called groups of death the social network “Vkontakte” persuaded teenagers to suicide. This is the message of the Investigative Committee of Russia Вестям.Ru commented the CEO of the social network of “Vkontakte” Boris Dobrodeyev.

“We don’t know about any communities “Vkontakte” is referred to in the statement of SK. Our company adheres to the policy of zero tolerance to the promotion of suicide. If the community is devoted to the description of methods of suicide or justification of the topic, it will be locked permanently without the right of appeal, — said Boris Dobrodeyev. — We struggle with this phenomenon as their own, regularly monitor the site, and in response to the signal user and regulator Roskomnadzor”.

the CEO of the social network said that for every suicide promotes a community that is blocked on demand of Roskomnadzor, there are ten communities found locked and the team of “Vkontakte”.

According to Boris dobrodeeva, the keyword search is now on first place is an online community project of psychological assistance to teenagers.

the Management of “Vkontakte” has not taken sufficient measures to curb the activities of the “group of death”, the administrator of which were detained, said the official representative of the Investigative Committee, Svetlana Petrenko.

She noted that the activities of the “group of death” was carried out exclusively on a social network “Vkontakte”. Video footage of the detention administrator’s group got to the Network:

the Investigators found that the access groups were severely restricted, he was akin to membership in a closed club, was carried out at the discretion of the community administrator.

investigators of the main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia in St. Petersburg is set to 15 victims — minors, held in the “group of death” and committed suicide in various Russian regions. The suicide of five adolescents did not take place.

Investigators conducted a series of searches in ten regions of Russia — Volgograd, Voronezh, Tula, Kemerovo, Moscow, Novosibirsk and Omsk regions, Krasnodar region, Komi Republic and Bashkortostan.

Eight promoting suicide communities acted in “Vkontakte” from December 2013 to may 2016.