The cannibal pardoned by Putin who returns home for Christmas

INTERNATIONAL / By Carmen Gomaro

Who. Denis Gorin, 44, was sentenced in 2018 to 22 years in prison for savagely stabbing a man to death and eating his flesh. He is considered the author of at least three more homicides. And with recidivism in cannibalism.

That. He has been pardoned by Vladimir Putin to fight in Ukraine.

As. He has followed the same process as hundreds of prisoners, some of whom have re-offended upon returning from the front.

His name is Denis Gorin and he is a serial killer convicted in four different cases. They call him the Sakhalin cannibal. Putin just pardoned him in exchange for his participation in the war with Ukraine. It is the umpteenth case of a criminal on the street in exchange for fighting on the front. But now people are more scared than outraged.

In his hometown of Aniva, in the Russian Far East, everyone who knows how to read understands the danger and cruelty that the subject embodies.. His way of acting includes eating the flesh of his victims. He was first sentenced in 2003 for murder and desecration of the body. In 2010, he was released on parole for “impeccable behavior”. That same year he stabbed to death the brother of the man with whom he shared a cell in a preventive detention center.. After the murder, simply to “remember the past,” he decided to “cut [the victim's] meat, washed it, put it in the refrigerator and then ate it,” according to the prosecution's complaint.

In 2011 and 2012, Gorin killed again. Both times it was together with his brother Evgeny: both ended the lives of two more people. One of them was a man who was stabbed 29 times outside a store.. In 2018, the court sentenced him to 22 years in prison in a special regime prison: the kind of prisons from which it is almost impossible to escape.

Now, according to the publication, Gorin is being treated after being injured. He is close to home, in a hospital in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. His neighbor was the one who informed journalists about Gorin's whereabouts. At the end of October, a former prisoner published on the social network 'Odnoklassniki' a photograph of himself in a camouflage uniform and the Z symbol on his sleeve, notes the publication 'Sibir.Realii', which is identified as a foreign agent in Russia. “I don't think he will be free for long. All the relatives of his victims remember him,” said the neighbor.

The activity on Gorin's page in Odnoklassniki coincides with the dates specified in the verdict. After December 2012, no posts with photographs appeared on his page. Now he poses boasting of his warrior ardor. The murderer is a hero.

Denis Gorin is far from the first case: all prisoners sent to Ukraine receive Putin's forgiveness. In November, according to media estimates, the Russian president had already pardoned at least 17 people previously convicted of murder. All of them participated in the war in Ukraine and returned from the front to enjoy freedom. Some have already committed new crimes.

Last month it became known that the Russian president pardoned in April this year Vladislav Kanyus, the murderer of the Kemerovo student Vera Pejteleva, who died after being beaten for hours. The relatives of the dead protest, but without success: “This is a circus, but instead of laughing here we cry,” Oksana Pejteleva, the girl's mother, explained to EL MUNDO a few weeks ago.. Days later it was learned that Nikolai Ogolobyak, 33, sentenced in 2010 to 20 years in prison for ritual murders of teenagers, received a pardon in exchange for his participation in the Ukrainian war.. Another 'cannibal' for Putin's trenches in Ukraine.