A student of the Technological High School “Alexandru Vlahuţă” in Šendričeni was arrested after attacking and blackmailing several colleagues, the spokesperson of the District Police Inspectorate (IPJ) Delia Nenishku announced on Saturday.

The event chose Dear the court, which chose a preventive measure for the 16-year-old for 30 days. Under the threat of smashing, the boy took the phones of his colleagues, and then took them to the pawnshops in Dorohiysk municipality.

“Police are continuing their investigation into possible crimes involving stalking, beatings or other violence and blackmail,” said a representative of the IPJ.

Representatives of the county school inspectorate claim that the boy has a criminal past, he was arrested at home last year, after several thefts.

“He is a student in the 9th grade. He has had problems with the law in the past. In the summer, he broke into several shops in the municipality of Dorogy, was arrested and then placed under house arrest. He has more than 300 absences from school. He rarely came many attends classes, and the family said that it was overcome by the situation. Having certain precedents, after a quarrel with a colleague, the latter filed a report, and the police ordered to detain him,” said the head of the Inspectorate for AGERPRES, Schoolboy Bohdan Suruchiuk.