Donat is not to blame? Ten important questions in the case of a high school student. Mom of Donat Skakun: “The son says that the situation in the colony is normal, time flies very quickly Donat Skakun Gymnasium 74

Former student of the 74th gymnasium Donat Skakun was sentenced to eight years in prison for attacking a Russian language teacher. It would seem that the culprit has been found, and . But on social mediacontroversy does not subside about whether Donat is really guilty. More and more new questions are raised, the answers to which, unfortunately, were not given by either the investigation or the court.

Donat Skakun in the Minsk City Court before the verdict

A year ago in Minsk gymnasium No. 74. A teacher of Russian language and literature was attacked. Information appeared in the criminal reports that the student tried to stab the teacher for giving him a low mark. The victim, police said, was taken to the emergency room. And the guy was detained right in the gymnasium.

From day one, the case was closed to the public. All participants in the court took a non-disclosure agreement. But after the verdict was announced, the information still leaked to the social network.

1. What happened in the gymnasium according to the teacher?

May 23rd was a normal school day. The school year was coming to an end, so the kids who wanted to improve their grades had to "tighten their tails". At the 9th "B" class, where Donat studied, the first lesson was Russian, but since part of the class went on an excursion to Russia the day before, the children were allowed to come to the second lesson - for physical education.

Teacher Valentina Gubarevich came to the gymnasium at eight in the morning. First a work colleague came into her office, then a student Donat Skakun. He had poetry debts.

Russian language and literature teacher Valentina Gubarevich in court

The boy entered the classroom, put down his briefcase and, as the teacher thought, began to take out a textbook from the bag. However, Valentina Vladimirovna sharply felt pain in her neck. The high school student attacked her with a knife. Moreover, the attack took place in two stages. After several blows, Donat left the classroom, the knife remained on the table. Then he returned to the office and hit the victim several more times, after which he put the knife in his backpack and left.

The first person the victim called was her daughter. Valentina Vladimirovna called her twice. The daughter called an ambulance, she also reported the incident to her mother's colleagues. The director and the head teacher came running into the class. An ambulance and police followed. The teacher managed to repeat several times that she was attacked by a student of the gymnasium Donat Skakun. After that, the woman was taken to the hospital.

An important point - there were no direct eyewitnesses of what happened between the teacher and the high school student.

2. What happened in the gymnasium according to the student?

Donat, as usual, was brought to the lessons by his mother. He forgot that the first lesson was canceled, so he arrived at eight in the morning. On the spot, he decided to find out if Gubarevich had come to work in order to hand her the poems by heart, for which he had a debt.

He saw that Valentina Vladimirovna had another teacher in her office and decided to come back later. However, when he tried to do so, the teacher told him that she was busy and that he should come to answer at another time.

Donat went to the classroom, met the French teacher on the way, and talked to her. The teacher said that his classmate was sitting on the second floor and was bored.

Donat went down to him, they went for a walk around the school together. At the stadium, the guy hurt his hand - he caught on the fence when he wanted to pass. His friend saw it.

school stadium

Returning to school, the children saw that on the third floor the police were entering Gubarevich's office. There were other teachers nearby. Friends asked what happened, but no one knew anything.

The guys went to the locker room. There Skakun's father called - he was told by phone that Donat had attacked someone in the gymnasium. At nine in the morning, the guy was detained along with a classmate with whom he was walking around the stadium. The friend was released that same evening, but Donat never returned home.

3. Wanted to kill for a deuce in literature?

According to official data, the motive for the crime was revenge for a biased assessment. It's about about a few twos that the guy received for not being able to correctly pass the poem by heart. Relations with the teacher were really strained, Gubarevich called the student's mother to school.

Donat Skakun was not a loser or an excellent student, he studied above average. In Gubarevich's subjects, he had mostly "sevens" and "eights". The guy was quite calm about the assessments, and if he received low scores, then he did not make a tragedy out of it. He did not plan to enter after the 9th grade, so he was unlikely to be very interested in the average score in the certificate. The exact sciences were more interesting to him than the humanities.

By the way, he had no problems with poems based on Belarusian literature. As with foreign language, where you also often need to learn "topics".

Those who know Donat and saw him that day cannot believe that he could have committed this crime. Calm, sympathetic, balanced and even slow - this is how his acquaintances characterize the teenager.

He behaved normally, did not worry and did not attract attention in any way - those who saw the guy in the gymnasium during the first lesson, when the teacher was attacked, speak about his condition on May 23.

The teenager's condition changed only when his father called him and said that he was suspected of committing a crime. Hearing this, Donat's eyes widened in surprise.

4. Where is the knife that tried to kill the teacher?

On May 25, that is, two days after the tragedy, the Minister of the Interior said that law enforcement officers had found the crime weapon.

"Knife found- said Igor Shunevich. - The handle, the blade is sharply sharpened ... The knife consists of this. The child had a knife.

But in fact, the knife with which they tried to kill Valentina Gubarevich was not found.

The operative part of the verdict, which the judge read out in front of the journalists, says that the blade of the knife, which was found and seized on May 24 (the day after the assassination attempt - ed.) should be destroyed, during an inspection along Artilleristov Street, 8.

The gymnasium is located at Artilleristov, 15, that is, on the opposite side of the street. The blade of the knife was found near the office building, where access control is in effect.

The building near which the knife blade was found

However, this find has nothing to do with the knife used to kill the teacher. The victim herself described the weapon differently.

It turns out that there is no key evidence in the case, although both the gymnasium and the surrounding area were carefully examined by law enforcement officers, with the involvement of service dogs.

The comrade, who wandered around the stadium with Donat before the lessons, said that he did not see him hide or throw away the knife during the walk. The guys have not parted since the meeting.

5. Why didn't anyone notice blood on Donat's clothes?

Several people saw Donat at the gymnasium on the morning of May 23. However, no one noticed that the guy behaved suspiciously and that there were traces of blood on his clothes after he, according to the investigation, tried to kill the teacher.

The schoolboy's things were carefully studied by experts. At the same time, the shoes were submitted for examination in an open package. When examining the backpack, where, according to the teacher, Donat threw a bloody knife, no blood was found. However, it turned out in court that there was no protocol for examining the backpack in the case at all, so this item was not considered as evidence.

Witnesses did not see blood on Donat's clothes, but, according to experts, there were traces of blood on the guy's jacket, trousers, shirt and shoes, which could come from Gubarevich.

Skakun's defense tried to convey that the blood on the guy's clothes appeared after his things were packed by a police officer who had previously helped move Gubarevich, that is, he had contact with her body, where there was blood. But this argument was considered far-fetched.

6. Why was a 15-year-old guy forced to write a confession?

Donat was detained half an hour after the attempt was made on the teacher. His parents immediately arrived at the gymnasium, the father and his son went to the police station.

Donat Skakun's parents

At the police department, the father was told to go for an examination, and when he returned, they did not let him see the child. The teenager was not allowed to see the lawyer, who spent almost seven hours at the police station.

The first interrogation was scheduled for eight in the evening of the same day, but the lawyer advised him to refuse it, since Donat looked exhausted and exhausted.

The next day, the relatives learned that at night the schoolboy wrote a confession. According to the guy, he wrote what the investigator dictated to him. The relatives were told that now Donat must repeat all this on camera.

Donat was 15 at the time of the interrogation. They did not have the right to interrogate him at night, and even without the participation of a lawyer, one of the parents, a teacher or a psychologist. The investigator was well aware of this, but this did not stop him. In court, he stated that the student voluntarily wrote a sincere confession. By the way, they also did not have the right to summon the investigator to the court, since, according to the law, he cannot be a witness.

After such methods of investigation, Donat decided to refuse to testify. However, it is known that the young man passed a polygraph.

“There is a certificate in the case that, according to the results of the polygraph examination, no information of significance in this criminal case was received,”- told Euroradio Donat's mother.

The injured teacher refused to take a polygraph. Note that to pass a lie detector is a right, not an obligation of a participant in the process.

7. Why was the investigative experiment not carried out?

Donat Skakun was accused of attempting to assassinate Valentina Hubarevich between 08:00 and 08:40. However, according to the video cameras that are installed in the gymnasium, it is clear that at 08:30 he had already gone outside with a friend.

In court, the period of the crime was reduced - from 08:13 to 08:30 minutes. But here, too, there are discrepancies.

At 08:30, Donat left the school with his friend. According to a friend, Skakun approached him at about 08:20. Gubarevich called her daughter at 08:24 for the first time and at 08:30 for the second time to report the attack.

The Russian language room is located on the third floor. The horse needed time to meet a friend on the second floor, talk to him, walk around the school, and only after that go down to the first floor together and go outside.

Many also raised questions why the teacher did not immediately dial 103 and why she did not resist the attacker - none of the witnesses heard screams and noise from the struggle. Friends describe Donat as a slow and calm person, Valentina Vladimirovna as a fighting and confident woman.

Perhaps some contradictions would have been removed if an investigative experiment had been carried out. For crimes involving an attempt on a person's life, this is a common practice.

Donat's mother stated that there was such a petition, but the investigator rejected it. In the case file there was not even a plan of the gymnasium.

8. What was the general atmosphere like at Gubarevich's lessons and what did they think about it in the gymnasium?

Valentina Gubarevich is an experienced teacher, she is 58 years old. Everyone who knows her unanimously says that she is a demanding teacher. Gubarevich's qualifications did not raise any questions, her students won at the olympiads. But here are the methods that she used in the lessons, are evaluated ambiguously.

First, she regularly raised her voice to the children. At the lesson, she could declare: “I will not work with unmotivated children!” or "Between me and you (student. - ed.) the director will choose me!”. Some children were simply afraid to go to her lessons, because she was a person of mood - she could shout, put an unfair mark.

Secondly, she practiced the seating of children "according to knowledge." That is, in her classes, the guys did not sit as usual. Valentina Vladimirovna explained this by the fact that motivated students needed to be grouped in one place so that she could give them tasks of a more complex level. Children, on the other hand, made conclusions for themselves who was “smart” and who was “stupid”.

However, most often conflicts arose with the guys who wanted high marks, but did not want to work hard. Grades in this case were more needed by their parents.

There was another episode. Gubarevich let the children go from school so that they could take the money collected for the excursion to the travel agency where her daughter worked. That is, two schoolchildren were taken across the city to public transport over a thousand c.u. And management was aware of this scheme.

According to parents whose children studied at the 74th gymnasium, they repeatedly complained about the Russian language teacher to both the class teacher and the principal. But the administration tried to smooth things over, the teachers were not replaced.

“Throughout the proceedings, my lawyer and I asked the court for mercy and leniency towards the young man,”- said Valentina Gubarevich after the verdict was announced.

The teenager was indeed assigned the minimum possible punishment under his article - eight years in prison in an educational colony. But the victim, according to Donat's mother, asked to give him 11 years.

According to her, neither Donat nor his parents asked her for forgiveness. However, the schoolboy's family paid the teacher $23,000 in compensation before the end of the trial.

9. Why was Donat's case considered behind closed doors?

By law, proceedings in camera court session allowed in cases of crimes committed by persons under 16 years of age. Donat was 15 years old at the beginning of the process.

The parents and the accused himself did not insist on a closed regime and hoped that the trial would be held in an open regime.

10. If Donat is not to blame, then who attacked the teacher?

Valentina Gubarevich from the first minutes, when they began to provide assistance to her, called only one surname - Skakun. And this was the only version on which the investigation worked.

Although there are other options in Donat’s support groups: the fact that another student could attack her, and the fact that the attacker could not be from among the high school students at all, and even that the teacher could injure herself.

It is hard to believe that someone dared to falsify the case against a 15-year-old teenager. But if a person is exposed to such serious charges, and Part 2 of Art. 139 is called the "execution article", the evidence must be undeniable. In the case of the high school student, many questions, unfortunately, remained unanswered.

The case of Donat Skakun will still be considered by the Supreme Court, which received a complaint against the verdict.

For the attempted murder of a teacher of Russian language and literature, he passed the exams for the 9th grade for three nines in the Bobruisk educational colony.

We believe that this is a great merit of the school and educational colony. Everything turned out thanks to the director of this school, we are sincerely grateful to him. He told Donat to write another application to the Ministry of Education - Donat was allowed to take the exam. He tried very hard, prepared and worried - he wanted everything to work out, - says Alina, the guy's mother.

Recall that the incident happened in gymnasium No. 74 in Minsk in May 2016. According to investigators, that morning a 9th grade student Donat Skakun entered the classroom, closed the door behind him and inflicted 17 knife wounds on Russian language and literature teacher Valentina Gubarevich. The former high school student was sentenced in April 2017, the Supreme Court considered the appeal in September and upheld the verdict. All this time, Donat Skakun was in jail and tried to pass the exams.

We had the permission of the investigator, they were ready to provide a room in the pre-trial detention center, but we were refused in the 74th gymnasium, - Alina recalls. - We are very happy that now everything has finally worked out.

Philologist Svetlana Bogush from Minsk helped Donat prepare for language exams - she wrote him a letter to the colony and offered her help.

I was very touched by this story, I wanted to support the boy in such a situation. But I didn’t want to write a banal “hold on” - I began to think about what exactly I could do for Donat, and the idea arose to help him prepare for language exams. I wrote a letter with such a proposal, and he agreed.

Svetlana says that she herself did not fully imagine how the training would take place, but as a result everything worked out.

I sent tasks, Donat did them, I checked, sorted out errors and sent new tasks. Donat began and ended each of his letters with words of gratitude. I am very glad that he passed all the exams perfectly, but I don’t think that I was somehow involved in this - he is a very capable and smart boy.

Donat writes 4-5 letters a week to his parents. He says that he likes school - there, according to him, there are good teachers.

He says that time flies very quickly. At first I even thought that the lessons were not for 45, but for 30 minutes, - Alina, the mother of a teenager, laughs. - Donat plans to get a specialty in the colony: they have a vocational school, by the summer he will decide where to enroll, and says that you can even get a few specialties. They were very fond of working with wood with dad - so, if possible, he would go to study as a carpenter.

Alina says that Donat is busy all day: he goes to work in the morning, then to school, or vice versa. And in the evening the son writes letters, time flies by unnoticed.

Every day is hard for us, it drags on for a long time, - the interlocutor says quietly. We had a four-hour date a month ago. Donat said that the situation in the colony was normal, the guys were good - he met some of them back in the pre-trial detention center. He was helped to adapt, treated well. It is clear that he is trying to protect us from some kind of experience. But I think it's quite difficult for him. Many letters are written to him, and strangers, classmates, and teachers support him.

Parents are now waiting for an answer from Supreme Court to a supervisory complaint.

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The whole accusation is built only from the words of the teacher. Donat's prints were not found, the blood found belongs to an unidentified man and woman, Donat passed a polygraph - according to the polygraph, he was not involved in the crime, the teacher refused to take a polygraph. Testimony of witnesses: classmates, their parents, teachers - all in favor of Donat, there is no crime weapon in the case, no blood was found in the backpack into which Donat allegedly threw a knife. Despite this, April 7 Minsk City Court sentenced Donat to eight years in prison in an educational colony under Part 1 of Art. 14 and paragraphs. 6, 10 h. 2 tbsp. 139 UK(attempted murder of a person in connection with the implementation of professional activities).

“Many Belarusians have heard about the incident that happened in the 74th gymnasium in Minsk on May 23, 2016. Then I sadly thought, how do you need to get a student so that he attacks the teacher with a knife? And now, after almost a year, we learn about the sentence: 8 years in prison. Well, they got the kid, he broke, he messed up. Got a deadline. It would be possible not to touch on this topic, if you do not delve into the details of what happened. And many Belarusians, also not understanding the essence of what is happening, condemn this act and the boy himself. But I want to shout to the whole world: people, do not believe! Donat Skakun is not involved in what happened in this gymnasium on the morning of May 23, 2016. After studying the materials available to me, analyzing the situation and conducting a small investigation, I can say with confidence that Donat was not at the scene! And I know two people who know exactly what happened that morning on May 23rd. I understand that my team and I are challenging the system, but you can’t argue against the facts. On this platform, we will publish everything that the investigation was hiding, and how the court behaved! All details will be made public. We won’t let an innocent boy go to jail so easily!”- wrote on his page former political prisoner Nikolai Autukhovich

Civil activists, caring people are photographed with a poster #Donat_innocent or #Danat_nevinavaty and post photos in social media with the same hashtag.

Two years ago, this case shook the country. A student of the capital's gymnasium Donat Skakun was detained for attacking a teacher.

Despite the fact that the knife with which the teacher was wounded was never found, and there were many strange inconsistencies in the case file, which both lawyers and human rights activists paid attention to, Donat was given eight years in prison.

The "Belarusian partisan" asked how the guy, who is now serving his sentence in the Bobruisk penal colony, is doing.

So far, there is no special news, - Donat's mother Alina said. - We're sitting. My lawyers and I are trying to do something, but so far I cannot say that there is any concrete result.

How often can you see your son?

We have a dating schedule. On average, it turns out that a short date is supposed to be once every one and a half months. And they allow for a long time, when one of the parents spends a day with the child.

How is Donat feeling?

It seems to be holding up. He writes letters to us all the time.

There was a huge wave of support for Donat, even strangers who were touched by this story sent letters to him ...

And now they write too! The son maintains relationships with so many people whom he had never seen or knew before, and now regularly corresponds with them. I think this outside support is also very important. She, in my opinion, gives him the strength to hold on, feeds him. It is clear that not all letters reach, but this is, let's say, the human factor.

- Classmates get in touch with him?

Yes, friends from school remained. In this regard, everything is fine. From time to time Donat calls us. These are very short conversations, but we always look forward to them.

- What about studies?

Everything seems to be fine. Quarter marks were just about to be given, but we still don't know about the results - Donat promised to write about everything. Health seems to hold up as well. Although, to be honest, even if something is not very good, he still won’t tell us. The son tries once again not to excite us, not to cause trouble. He always says that he is fine.

“Does the colony’s leadership tell you something about him?”

We do not communicate with the authorities, but when we arrive either for programs or for a date, we can always talk with the head of the detachment, with the educators. They make good contact and say that there are no questions for the child.

- Alina, and during all this time that Donat was in the colony, did he complain about something?

Never and no matter what! Don't worry, he says, I'm fine. He is probably an optimist with us - I want to believe in it. Otherwise, he probably would not have survived ...

- This year, Donat's classmates are entering institutes and universities ...

And Donat has just finished 10th grade. When he got to the pre-trial detention center, there were problems with passing the exams - they were not allowed to take them in the pre-trial detention center, and he lost time. Fortunately, in contrast to the capital's gymnasium No. 74, at the school at the colony, the teachers and management treated him well and helped him pass the exams externally. By the way, successfully.

As for plans for the future, we hope that after graduating from the 11th grade, Donat will be able to remotely receive a higher education.

Are the lawyers visiting Donat?

Now, when we have the opportunity to meet with our son, lawyers do not go to the colony. But they continue to do business. After all, we have not yet gone through all the judicial instances, and we continue to appeal the verdict. We will use absolutely all possibilities.

We want to get answers to all our questions, but, unfortunately, so far this has not been possible ...