MOSCOW, September 8 (RAPSI) – Family of geography teacher Andrei Kirillov killed by school student Sergey Gordeev in February 2014 filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) over Moscow’s court ruling to send the teen for compulsory medical treatment, Trunov, Aivar and Partners, the firm representing the victims, informed on its website on Thursday.

According to the statement, fundamental principles of the European Convention on Human Rights have been violated during investigation and consideration of the case. In particular, claims are connected with poor provision of security in school and wrong bargaining tactics resulted in the teacher’s death.

Kirillov’s relatives also insist that the decision to send Gordeev for compulsory medical treatment instead of actual sentencing was meritless. This court ruling is based only on findings by commissioners in lunacy; however, experts have not confirmed psychotic state of the student excluding conscious and volitional behavior in flagrante delicto, the statement reads.

Victims in their complaint also stated that Russian court had dismissed a lot of motions seeking summons for the witnesses and questioning them.

The incident took place on February 3, 2014, when Sergey Gordeev, 15, brought a rifle and a carbine to school. He killed a police officer and a teacher, injured one more person and took hostages.

The Investigative Committee found that the student had fired at least 11 rounds from a small caliber rifle before he was arrested.

Initially Gordeev has partially admitted his guilt while psychiatric evaluation showed that he is mentally fit, but in summer 2015, the Moscow City Court confirmed the original court’s ruling that the student should undergo a compulsory medical treatment.

Last September, relatives of victims filed a cassation appeal with the Presidium of the Moscow City Court. In their appeal, they requested that the original ruling of the Moscow Butyrsky District Court be overturned, as well as the ruling of the Moscow City Court. On November 13, the Moscow City Court Presidium revoked a ruling ordering Gordeev to undergo psychiatric treatment.

On February 8, 2016, the Moscow Regional Military Court ordered that the case be closed because of absence of elements of crime in the act, the defendant be discharged from liability and sent for forced medical treatment. On March 30, 2016 Moscow’s Butyrsky District Court ordered the parents of Gordeev to pay over 2 million rubles ($31,000) in compensation to the victims in the case.