Russia may ban quests for minors

Ruslan Shalamov, a member of the council of the Call of the People movement, stated the need to ban quests for minors at the legislative level.

In an interview with the "Paragraph" on Monday, August 11, he proposed to increase the term of criminal punishment to 15 years for conducting dangerous games that led to injury or death of a child.

Public activists sent an appeal to the State Duma after the incident in Perm, where two sisters aged 11 and 14 said that the actors dragged them by the hair and beat them with whips during the quest. Shalamov stressed that this was not an isolated case, recalling the quests with Satanic symbols and the tragedy in Makhachkala, when the girls died in a locked room during a fire.

According to him, "trash quests" for minors should be completely banned, and the punishment for their conduct should be differentiated: from several years in prison for organizing safe games and up to 10-15 years for dangerous ones. He also proposed imposing heavy fines on those who finance, advertise, or provide facilities for illegal quests. Such measures, Shalamov is sure, will help prevent injuries, psychological shocks and new tragedies.

On August 8, the investigative Department of the Investigative Committee (IC) of Russia for the Perm Region opened a criminal case under the article on the provision of services that do not meet safety requirements after injuring children during a quest in the regional capital. The children said that they were beaten with whips, lifted into the air by their necks and forcibly pinned to the bed. As a result, one of the participants needed medical attention, RT notes. The organizers of the game do not admit their guilt. They claim that the sisters' mother chose the contact game mode herself, which implies possible bruises, abrasions or even scratches, IA Regnum notes.

In June, the Leninsky District Court of St. Petersburg acquitted two organizers of a taser quest that injured a teenager. The incident occurred on February 23, 2023. According to the investigation, a group of teenagers took part in a quest organized in a room on Tsiolkovsky Street. As a result of the incident, a 17-year-old teenager was injured. According to the victim's mother, the organizers beat the participants with a stun gun, dragged the girls by the hair, chained the teenagers to the bed and dripped red-hot wax on their stomachs.

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