Attacked a synagogue in Moscow was a mental hospital patient – Arguments and facts

Moscow, Oct 2 – AIF-Moscow.

a law enforcement Source reported that the man detained on suspicion in the attack on the Moscow choral synagogue has a medical diagnosis of “schizophrenia”, Interfax reports.

According to him, it became known that the place of residence of the man consists on the account in a psychoneurological clinic with the diagnosis “schizophrenia”.

Also, law enforcement officers found that the detainee has a musical education and works as an accompanist at St. Tikhon’s Orthodox humanitarian University.

Note that the University said they did not have information about the attacker to the synagogue.

“We can’t confirm that the person who attacked the synagogue has something to do with the University. We don’t even know the name of the attacker, as something to comment on,” – said the head of Department, St. Tikhon’s University for public relations Svetlana Khmelnitsky.

Recall that in the evening of 1 October, the man barged in with a can of gasoline in the Large synagogue in the Spaso-the Glinishchevsky pereulok in Central Moscow and stabbed the guard from a traumatic gun. The victim was hospitalized.

Arrived, the police arrested the attacker, he was 40-the summer inhabitant of the Moscow region town of Korolev. Upon attack criminal case under article UK “Hooliganism”.