Singer Charlotte (real name – Eduard Charlotte)According to the Telegram channel, the suspect who burned the Russian passport in Armenia was from St. He was detained at Pulkovo airport in St. Petersburg. Mash on Moika. In the published video, the 25-year-old musician walks through the airport accompanied by several police officers.
On November 12, on her Instagram page (the owner of the Meta company is known as an extremist and is banned in Russia), the singer announced her intention to return to the Russian Federation to record a new album and asked her fans for “an album.” small amount of money for a ticket”.
“I’m going home, to my hometown <…> I predetermined my life – Russian-speaking culture. And I will fight for it,” the artist later told his fans.
A few days later, from Yerevan to St. He posted his ticket to St. Petersburg on social networks and described his goal as “the fight for Russian-speaking culture.” After that he too in the name to the “creative and musical duel” of singer SHAMAN (real name – Yaroslav Dronov). The singer arrived in the Russian Federation on the night of November 22; An hour later, a video of his detention went viral.
TV channel RT Referring to the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, he reported that a criminal complaint had been filed against the artist. fly administrative protocol: on charges of damaging a passport, discrediting the Russian Armed Forces and petty hooliganism..
According to information Mash on MoikaCharlotte was detained by Center E employees (Department for Countering Extremism of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. – “socialbites.ca”).
“I won’t do this again”
The singer stated that he repented of the crime he committed during the interrogation after he was taken into custody. She attributed the reason for his actions to “a mistake in understanding what happened” and added that he “succumbed to bad influences”. Footage of the interrogation was published Telegram-Channel of Ekaterina Mizulina, president of the Safer Internet League.
“He was wrongly obsessed with misinformation <…> “I won’t do this again,” the artist says in the video.
Musician Valery Charlotte’s father stated socialbites.ca, I just learned that my son was arrested.
“I was aware it was coming because it had spread over a wide area yesterday. We haven’t had any communication with him for a long time and I can’t say anything new.
It was already clear what was going to be published, we were waiting for this moment, but then… What can I say? It was necessary to assume that something would happen, but I could not be sure of that,” said the singer’s father.
However, he expressed doubt that he was his son’s lawyer.
According to this ShotThe singer is planned to be detained for 15 days. At the same time, a representative of the popular movement “People’s Call” Sergei Zaitsev told the Telegram channel that social activists are ready to rehabilitate the musician if three conditions are met: He must make a public apology, serve in the military, and pay a fine under all three protocols.
“Charlotte definitely needs to go through the military so her brain can be put in the right place and the nonsense will fly away. There he will be taught to love his homeland, understand the meaning of the Northern Military District and “fight” for Russian culture. Only then will it be possible to talk about the continuation of some cultural activities in Russia,” says Zaitsev.
On the Telegram channel “People’s Call” saidInformation about Charlotte’s arrival in Russia was passed on to the police by activists of the movement.
On November 21, Mash was defeated by Charlotte. declared unsuitable He joined the military due to third degree flat feet, and the musician had a military ID before the medical board’s decision.
“I should send him to a colony for a few years.”
26 June Charlotte published There is a video on Instagram in which he burns his passport as a citizen of the Russian Federation and appeals to the Ukrainian authorities with a request to organize his arrival in Kiev “for example, through an official invitation.”
“I want to go to the capital of Ukraine and support people with shows, concerts and various charity events.
<…> “I am no longer a criminal citizen of Russia, I am geographically in another country,” the musician said in the video.
Before that, he also posted a video criticizing Russian officials on social networks; In one of them, the musician nailed to the cross a military ID and a photo of the Patriarch of Moscow and All-Russian Kirill.
After the broadcast about the burning of the passport, Secure Internet League president Ekaterina Mizulina in the name The Investigative Committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia will check the singer for discrediting the RF Armed Forces and insulting the feelings of believers.
Head of the Federal Security and Anti-Corruption Project (FPBC) Vitaly Borodin appealed He appealed to the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, Igor Krasnov, and demanded that the musician be brought to justice, threatening him with five years in prison under the article on inciting hatred or hostility.
Public organizations also had complaints about the singer. Movement “Forty Forties” necessary depriving him of Russian citizenship and “People’s Call” activists asked The Ministry of Internal Affairs will check the musician for “public hooliganism”.
“If I had sent him to a colony with his curls for a few years, he would have sung differently. A silly little boy or little girl,” he said in “The People’s Call.”
Father Charlotte said “socialbites.ca” said that she saw her son’s videos on social networks and did not approve of his actions.
“I don’t understand where this could come from. To be honest, it doesn’t fit my mind. I always brought them up in the spirit of patriotism and we don’t have that in our family. Why did he suddenly have this? Maybe he’s communicating with someone out there,” said the artist’s father, adding that he had no connection with his son .
The singer’s father in a meeting with the Regnum agency suggestedIt is stated that burning passports and other actions can be associated with “childhood trauma”. The man stated that he raised Charlotte and her twin sister with his new wife, took their children from their mother, and that her mother treated them badly and beat them:
“Men have childhood traumas. Edik lived with us in Samara. Sometimes he went somewhere, then to St. Petersburg, then to Moscow. We were very proud of him. But then he suddenly decided to leave, he hasn’t said anything yet. That’s it. “He doesn’t communicate with me. He has nothing to be angry about though.”