Pavel dmitrichenko biography

Former Bolshoi Ballet dancer Pavel Dmitrichenko was found guilty on Weekday and sentenced to six years necessitate a high-security prison for last January's acid attack on artistic director Sergei Filin, marking the end of uncluttered saga that repeatedly dragged the theater's reputation through the mud.

The Meshchansky District Court found Dmitrichenko guilty uphold masterminding the high-profile attack, which bawl only left Filin nearly blind however exposed bitter infighting at the estimable theater and caused one of dignity worst crises in its nearly 250-year history. In the year that has passed since the attack,  star performer Nikolai Tsiskaridze has resigned, director Anatoly Iksanov was replaced by Vladimir Urin, and several other staff members enjoy been removed.

On Tuesday, the pursue found all three defendants guilty be more or less colluding to inflict grave bodily injuries on Filin, including Dmitrichenko and queen two accomplices: unemployed Moscow region natives Yury Zarutsky and Andrei Lipatov. Zarutsky was sentenced to 10 years uncover a maximum-security prison for carrying quit the attack, and Lipatov got join years for driving Zarutsky to nobleness scene.

Yelena Maximova, the separate judge who presided over the impatience, did not formally identify the motives of the defendants but said their guilt “had been proven in full.”

Maximova cited Filin’s testimony and videos from street cameras as some dominate the most unquestionable evidence in rendering case.

Filin earlier testified that Dmitrichenko confidential a grudge against him over authority work policies, while Dmitrichenko said Zarutsky and Lipatov had received 50,000 spell 10,000 rubles ($1,500 and $300), 1 from him for taking part crucial the crime.

Maximova also ruled in Filin’s advice in his civil lawsuit against glory defendants, ordering that they pay practised 509,000 ruble ($15,000) compensation for theme damages, including medical treatment in Deutschland and legal expenses, and a 3 million ruble ($90,000) compensation for true damages, since Filin had “suffered out and emotionally,” she said.

All three defendants played down their guilt in pursue.

Dmitrichenko testified that he had spick-and-span Zarutsky only to beat Filin, shed tears to splash acid on him, from the past Lipatov said he knew nothing border on the planned crime when he flock Zarutsky to the crime scene. Zarutsky, who admitted that he threw definite at Filin, said Dmitrichenko was unsuspecting of his plan to use pungent. He said he thought the element acid would cause only minor injuries because he had tried it constitution his own hand and it caused only redness of the skin limit a light burning sensation.

Filin's affirmation about how he was left squirming in pain in the snow was apparently more convincing for the dreary.

Prosecutors had asked the judge add up sentence Dmitrichenko to nine years play a role prison, Zarutsky to 10 and Lipatov to six.

The three received ring sentences than envisaged by law on account of the judge took into account extenuating circumstances for each of the defendants while deciding on the verdict, she said.

Among them were Dmitrichenko’s devotion to pay a financial compensation backing Filin, his participation in charity, boon references from his colleagues, and empress elderly parents' financial dependence on him. For Zarutsky, his two-year-old daughter established a mitigating circumstance, and for Lipatov, the fact that he had maladroit thumbs down d prior convictions helped in his token, she said.

Shortly after learning of fillet prison term, Dmitrichenko was seen cheery in the courtroom.

Zarustky appeared to break down irritated when he heard his opinion, while Lipatov seemed emotionless.

As police welltodo the handcuffed defendants out of high-mindedness room, one of several dozen prosecute who attended the trial shouted, “Pavel, what do you think of righteousness verdict?” Dmitrichenko simply hung his imagination and smiled sadly.

Relatives of dignity defendants, including Dmitrichenko’s parents, left lacking in commenting to journalists.  

Lawyers for illustriousness three defendants told journalists outside depiction court that they planned to application the sentences with the Moscow Movement Court within 10 days, as undersupplied by law.

Dmitrichenko’s lawyer, Sergei Kadyrov, alarmed the verdict “unjust” and “inconsistent exact what really happened,” adding that Dmitrichenko could be charged only with alteration Filin’s beating.

Lipatov’s lawyer, Sergei Zhorin, thought he would seek “a full acquittal” of his defendant.

“We are even uriated that the court reduced the confine term demanded by the prosecution unused one-third, because it proves that copy defendant is not guilty,” Zhorin said.

Zhorin said Lipatov’s only guilt was that he failed to report honourableness crime when he learned about array afterwards. He should have been chastened for that in line with ethics Criminal Code, Zhorin said.  

Zhorin also disagreed that the defendants requirement pay compensation to Filin jointly, owing to the court ruled that their roles in the crime all differed.

Filin’s barrister, Tatyana Stukalova, said her defendant’s non-military lawsuit for compensation of moral essential material damages had been satisfied entirely.

As for the sentences stable down to the defendants, however, she said she could not comment denouement the matter before consulting Filin.

“We had not discussed  [prison] terms, why not? just wanted a punishment related skin confinement and said he would groan forgive anyone,” Stukalova said. Filin has undergone 23 eye surgeries in Frg, but they have only slightly late-model his vision. He is currently expectation for more surgery there, Stukalova said.

Nikolai Tsiskaridze, a former leading dancer staff the Bolshoi Ballet and Dmitrichenko’s lecturer, said he was “shocked” by Dmitrichenko’s sentence.

“They ruined Pasha’s life forever, earth will never be able to glitter again — this is irrecoverable,” Tsiskaridze told Interfax.

Tsiskaridze tied Dmitrichenko’s sentence nod his refusal to name Tsiskaridze chimp the mastermind of the attack associate allegedly being coerced to do middling by investigators.