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Mentally ill former cagefighter escapes ward in St. Petersburg

© RIA Novosti . Alexei Kudenko"A Russian mixed martial arts fighter, diagnosed with mental problems, has escaped from a psychiatric clinic in St. Petersburg..."
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A Russian mixed martial arts fighter, diagnosed with mental problems, has escaped from a psychiatric clinic in St. Petersburg, a police source told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.

A Russian mixed martial arts fighter, diagnosed with mental problems, has escaped from a psychiatric clinic in St. Petersburg, a police source told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.

Vyacheslav Datsik, 33, was arrested in 2007 after a series of robberies in mobile phone stores. However, psychiatric examinations concluded that he was mentally ill and was exempted from being held responsible for the criminal charges.

Datsik was initially locked in a high security psychiatric clinic, but was transferred to a low security ward in mid-July. He escaped from the hospital on Saturday night.

"He tore a hole in a chain-link fence with his bare hands and fled. We immediately informed police about his escape," the fontanka.ru news website quoted the hospital's chief doctor Leonid Yefremov as saying.

The website says Datsik might have already started robbing shops again.

An assistant at a cell phone shop in St. Petersburg has already reported to a local police station that a "hefty man" robbed his shop on Sunday, taking about 7,000 rubles ($230) and a Nokia mobile phone. The assistant reportedly identified the robber as Datsik from a police photo.

Datsik was repeatedly disqualified for being too violent with his opponents in the ring. He disappeared from the ring after losing six straight fights between December 2001 and February 2003.

From 1996 to 2001, he faced numerous criminal charges for assault and battery, murder threats, arbitrary behavior and theft, but all the charges were dropped.

Datsik was also involved in political activities as a member of now banned nationalist Russian party Slavic Union.

MOSCOW, August 24 (RIA Novosti) 

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