Overview
- The Investigative Committee launched a pre-investigation check after reports that students fell ill on October 29 following visits to a college cafeteria in the Moskovsky district.
- Officials said the review was initiated after monitoring media accounts describing the incident and subsequent medical treatment of students.
- An emergency-services source told RIA Novosti that seven students were affected and preliminarily diagnosed with an intestinal infection.
- The St. Petersburg prosecutor's office said it will examine the institution's catering for compliance with sanitary-epidemiological rules and will oversee actions by Rospotrebnadzor and law enforcement.
- Activist Ekaterina Mizulina reported student complaints about severe hygiene issues in the cafeteria and identified the college as Zvezdny, with those claims referred to investigators and the sanitary watchdog.