“Arrest until January 26, 2020,” TASS quoted the press service of the court.

It is noted that during the trial the accused reported the presence of Russian and German citizenship, as well as a criminal record, however, specific data were not provided to them.

According to the IC of Russia in the Sverdlovsk region, the cause of the death of the boy was mechanical asphyxiation.

Investigators opened a criminal case.

Earlier, the Sverdlovsk Commissioner for Children's Rights, Igor Morokov, in an interview with kp.ru, commented on reports of the murder of a nine-year-old boy in Yekaterinburg, noting that at the moment it’s becoming clear “under what conditions the child lived, where he studied and whether his family was registered with PDN” .

On November 28, the media reported on the discovery of the body of a nine-year-old boy in one of the Yekaterinburg parks. One version of the incident is that the child was the victim of a religious sect in which his parents were a member.

It was noted that the death of the student was reported by his aunt when his sister returned to Belarus without a son. Later it turned out that the woman is mentally ill and has already undergone treatment in the hospital.

The source said that "the child was killed in his mother’s apartment in Chkalovsky district, the corpse was found in the Leninsky district of the city."