The case was opened on the fact of the torture of kindergarten pupils in the Nizhny Novgorod region.

A criminal case has been opened in the Nizhny Novgorod region on the fact of illegal actions against pupils of one of the kindergartens in Gorodets. This was reported on November 28 in the press service of the investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the region.

"During the monitoring of mass media and social networks, a publication and a story by a regional television company were revealed, in which it was reported that in one of the kindergartens in Gorodets, educators commit illegal acts against pupils," the department said in a Telegram channel.

It is noted that the criminal case was initiated under Article 117 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Torture"). The circumstances of the incident are now being established.

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