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In Moscow Region criminal investigation launched into information published in mass media that schoolgirls beat up girl

On 11 November 2014, a news agency posted on its website an article and a video, where several schoolgirls can be seen punching their peer in the face and then one of them tore out a tuft of hair from the girl’s head. After checking the information, the Moscow Region investigating bodies of the Russia’s Investigative Committee have launched a criminal investigation in a crime under paragraph “a” of part 2 of article 116 of the RF Penal Code (battery motivated by hooliganism).

By the present time investigators have already identified all the persons involved in the conflict. A forensic medical inquiry has been assigned to assess the damage caused to an underage girl. All necessary investigative operations are underway to gather and consolidate the evidence and prosecute the guilty ones. The investigation is ongoing.