A nanny accused of decapitating a 4-year old girl and brandishing her head outside a Moscow subway station says during an apparent interrogation captured on video that the killing was an act of revenge against President Vladimir Putin for Russian airstrikes in Syria.
Asked about the video, released today, Putin’s spokesman says it is difficult to judge the testimony of a woman he calls “clearly deranged.”
Gulchekhra Bobokulova, 38, was detained in Moscow on Monday after the child in her care was killed. The video footage appears to show police interrogating her. It is not clear where the video originated, and its authenticity or the circumstances in which it was taken are unverified. She appears to be wearing the same clothes she wore during a court appearance yesterday.
In the video, she says the killing of the child was revenge. Asked who it was revenge against, she says “the one who has spilled the blood.” Asked who that was, she replies: “Who spilled it? Putin has been dropping bombs.”
— AP
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