
© Grigorly Sisoev/SputnikBabysitter Gyulchekhra Bobokulova, accused of killing four-year-old Nastya Maksimova, at the Presnensky Court of Moscow.
The nanny accused of beheading a four-year-old girl and waving her severed head outside a Moscow Metro station said it was revenge for "Putin's airstrikes in Syria" while it has emerged the woman was a mental hospital patient in her native Uzbekistan.
"While people commit such crimes at the time of a sharp aggravation of the disease, they explain their actions when already in remission. One can hear some of the most incredible and fantastic versions of the motives. Some consider themselves to be Napoleons, others think they are an Indira Gandhi, etc - you name it. If there's anyone who should take [Gulchekhra Bobokulova's] words seriously, it's the psychiatrists," Vladimir Markin, spokesman for the Investigative Committee, said on Thursday.
A Samarkand regional mental hospital in Uzbekistan confirmed on Wednesday that Bobokulova had been registered with a local psychiatrist.
"Gulchekhra Bobokulova has been registered with our institution with a diagnosis of 'acute schizophrenic disorder' since 2003," hospital officials told RIA Novosti, adding that the patient had regularly demonstrated "deviations in psyche, along with the loss of control over her actions."
In video footage leaked online on Wednesday, Bobokulova is heard speaking erratically: "I took revenge against those who spilled blood... Putin spilled blood, planes carried out bombings. Why are Muslims being killed? They also want to live," she told an investigator in the video.
She says that she had wanted to relocate to Syria, but lacked the money to move. When asked whether she wanted to join Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL), Bobokulova replies"I don't know," adding that she "just wanted to live there." She says she has been avidly reading the Koran, and that God told her that "the end of the world is coming in a second."
Comment: If only such justice could be meted out to all cops who misuse the badge.