MOSCOW // A nanny accused of decapitating a child has been diagnosed schizophrenic, Russian investigators said Thursday, as footage emerged of the woman linking the killing to Russia's bombing in Syria.
Gyulchekhra Bobokulova — whom the press have dubbed "the bloody nanny" — from Muslim-majority Uzbekistan was arrested Monday as she waved the child's head outside a metro station in north-western Moscow. She was sent for psychiatric examinations.
Arriving at a Moscow court on Wednesday, the 38-year-old said that "Allah ordered" the killing. A judge ordered her held in custody for two months over the murder of the girl, whom investigators say was aged either four or five years.
Footage later emerged on the internet appearing to show the mother-of-three saying the attack was "revenge" for Russian president Vladimir Putin's bombing campaign in Syria, which began in September.
"I took revenge against the one that spilled blood," she says in the video in response to a question from a man who is not in view, and wearing the same clothes she wore in court.
"Putin is bombing. Bombs from aeroplanes. Why are you bombing Muslim? Nobody talks about it. They also want to live."
After the appearance of the video, Russia's investigative committee, which reports directly to Putin, swiftly released a statement saying Ms Bobokulova had "long been diagnosed with schizophrenia".
"For a person who has long been diagnosed with schizophrenia, the motive at the moment the crime was committed, as a rule, does not coincide with the explanations given after the event," committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said. "I appeal to the media: do not make premature conclusions and protect the psychological state of your viewers."
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov also dismissed Ms Bobokulova's apparent claims that the killing was revenge for Putin's Syria campaign.
"It is obvious that we are talking about a deranged person," Mr Peskov said. "You need to relate to her words as you would to the words of a deranged person."
Ms Bobokulova is suspected of beheading the girl at the family's apartment in north-western Moscow, before torching it and fleeing.
Russia's national television channels have almost entirely ignored the brutal slaying of the child Nastya, who suffered from epilepsy and learning disabilities.
The Kremlin has defended the blackout while rejecting claims it ordered the move, with Mr Peskov saying the subject was "probably too monstrous to be shown on television".
* Agence France-Presse
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