The Kerch killer could have been influenced by Jehovah's Witnesses
Vladislav Roslyakov, who committed mass murder at the Kerch Polytechnic College, was influenced by the fact that his mother was a member of the religious organization Jehovah's Witnesses, banned in the Russian Federation, and tried to involve her son in it.
The president of the information and analytical center “Religion and Society” Alexey Grishin stated this at a press conference in Moscow, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“If his mother was an active adherent of the Jehovah’s Witnesses sect, then this sect certainly had a psychological influence on him. This is not necessarily a direct effect. He himself might not have been a member of this sect. According to information from his grandmother, he returned to the family at the age of 8, and from the age of eight his mother tried to push him into this sect. One way or another, he still attended meetings, perhaps even being baptized.
It is quite possible that at an older age he began to resist this sect. It is quite possible that some radical ideas appeared in his fight against this sect. But it is clear that the influence of this sect was great,” he said.
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