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Etching at the Bolshoi: The three suspects convicted

 

Russian dancer Pavel Dmitritchenko was convicted Tuesday, December 3, an acid attack that was almost blinded the artistic director of the Bolshoi, Sergei Filine. While the sentence must be imposed in the day, the prosecution requested a prison sentence of nine years against the dancer, who is 29 years old. At the end of the trial which lasted a month, his two co-defendants, the running and the driver Yuri Zaroutski Andrey Lipatov, were also convicted of causing , intentional serious bodily injury to Sergei Filine.

The defendants were appearing from mid-October to Meshchansky Court of Moscow for the attack committed on January 17 at the bottom of the building artistic director of the theater, Sergei Filine. According to the judge, the three men were "heard before" to commit this crime. "Dmitritchenko was happy Filine work on roles and bonuses artists, Dmitritchenko developed a criminal plan," she said ,.

During the trial, Pavel Dmitritchenko it has rejected the accusation of wanting premeditated grievous bodily harm to Sergei Filine, while admitting he asked that he is beaten. During the argument, he said he was ready to be sentenced for "shots", a charge punishable by up to two years of camp. Zaroutski Yuri has for its part admitted to Sergei Filine attacked on its own acid.

Testified at trial, Sergei Filine had meanwhile said he could not forgive his attackers.

Quarrels within Bolshoi laid bare

This case has had repercussions in the theater itself. The dancer Nikolai Tsiskaridze in open conflict with Sergei Filine, was sacked in June after doubted the severity of injuries to his rival and have been almost openly accused of being the instigator of the attack by the former theater director Anatoly Iksanov. A month later, it is Anatoli Iksanov itself was sacked.

Mid-November, an American dancer, Joy Womack, said in an interview with the newspaper "Izvestia" I had to leave the Bolshoi whose hierarchy demanded of her 10,000 dollars to take it to the rank soloist.

Latest twist to date: Monday, December 1, the conductor and musical director of the theater, Vasily Sinaisky, resigned on his own initiative, fifteen days after the first highly anticipated opera "Don Carlo" by Verdi.

With Reuters and AFP