A man who is accused of killing nine people in an attack on a school in Russia's Tatarstan region last year has pleaded guilty to all charges. Ilnaz Galyaviyev said on November 15 that he did not need his two lawyers and demanded that all journalists be removed from the courtroom. A judge on Tatarstan's Supreme Court rejected Galyaviyev's demands. Galyaviyev attacked a school in Tatarstan's capital, Kazan, with explosives and a firearm on May 11, 2021, and seven eighth-graders and two teachers were killed. In July, a court-ordered psychiatric examination concluded Galyaviyev was mentally ill. To read the original story from RFE/RL's Idel.Realities, click here.
School Attacker In Russia's Tatarstan Pleads Guilty
Ilnaz Galyaviyev appears in a Kazan court in May 2021.