Journalist allegedly threatened to kill the head of the Altai and escaped from the mental hospital, caught

Altay SK reported on the detention of 36-year-old journalist for a local opposition newspaper Ruslan Makarov , who allegedly threatened to kill the head of the republic Alexander berdnikov while on prinudlechenii in a mental hospital, and then ran away from the hospital.

Fugitive arrested on October 15, soon result in the case against him will ask the court to change the measure of restraint helper for arrest, according to a site of regional SU IC Tuesday.

September 14 Makarov was placed in the Republican Psychiatric Hospital by the court for compulsory treatment, from the night of 28 September, he disappeared, violating chosen measure in the form of subscription on parole and good behavior. Criminal investigation against Makarov continues, according to a press release.

The journalist was arrested on Monday night in the Gorno-Altai, he is now in the detention center, specified RIA "News" in the Altai SU IC.

Criminal case against the opposition newspaper reporter "leaflet" brought the September 17 Part 2 of Art. 119 of the Criminal Code ("The threat of a murder committed on the grounds of political hatred"). According to investigators, July 11, a psychiatrist Makarov said he wanted to kill the governor berdnikov. Operatives believe that the threats made against the head of Altai "motivated by political hatred," as well as "to intimidate."

Meanwhile at "leaf" reported that the journalist first disappeared and then was found in the nuthouse. As founder of the newspaper told the deputy Sergei Mikhailov, September 14, Makarov went on hunger strike on 19 September was issued Gorno-Altai city court on his compulsory treatment. The very next day the journalist were led out of hunger with a dropper, Mikhailov noted.

At the same time, from Ust-Koksinsky hospitals, where there is a journalist, reported that his health had deteriorated doctors discovered a Makarov delirium, and the nature and history of the disease can lead to a socially dangerous act, clearly indicated by doctors.

However, early in the morning on September 28 law enforcement officers told about the escape from the mental hospital Makarova Gorno-Altai and declared him wanted. Makarov himself said in the pages of "leaf", that he was placed in a psychiatric hospital is illegal, and that it is not dangerous to society.

The staff of "leaf" Makarov said hospital with their "punitive psychiatry" and are convinced that he was placed in a psychiatric hospital for political reasons. Mikhailov wrote, doctors and staff of a psychiatric hospital after being hospitalized in fact encouraged him to organize the escape Makarov abroad.

Earlier by Gorno-Altai City Court reported that Makarov was sued for defamation against berdnikov. As explained by the representatives of the journalist, the head of the region on one of the parliamentary sessions in the local parliament allegedly named Makarov "mentally ill" than "divulged the secret illness" journalist.

In this case, the journalist will not deny that he has a mental illness, but believes that by publishing this information, berdnikov violated his rights. Makarov claimed that he suffered psychological harm and mental suffering.

Makarov is known for his publications against the construction of power plants on the river cartoon, as well as criticism of the head of the Ust-Koksinsky District Sergei Grechushnikova and head of the republic.

Note that the newspaper "Leaf" were heavily criticized not only regional officials, but also the Kremlin. It was on her initiative back in 2010 a scandal erupted over the so-called "Putin's estate", which paved the way for a $ 4 billion rubles, destroyed the monuments of history and culture.

In addition, the founder of "Hazard" blamed Governor Alexander berdnikov in alcoholism.

Meanwhile, the presence of a Makarov serious mental health problems became widely known in 2006. Then, investigators determined that the future opposition journalist was involved in the bombings in Moscow in 2004. MSU graduate Ruslan Makarov demanded "bank of Moscow" 20 million rubles, and to be more convincing organized several bombings in the office with homemade bombs, found out the investigation of the resonant case.

While Makarov lived in Kislovodsk and engaged in business. He was diagnosed with "paranoid schizophrenia, continuously progressive course, paranoid syndrome that accompanies" and sent to the 10 months in a psychiatric hospital prinudlechenie.

The investigator called Makarov computer genius.

He spent several years in the United States, where he first studied, and then working out the two positions of the year.

Former employers are flatteringly about the Russian programmer who created the database to track movement of rail freight.