Russian ballet star confesses to masterminding acid attack on chief of Bolshoi
Source: Associated Press
Russian ballet star confesses to masterminding acid attack on chief of Bolshoi
By Associated Press,
Updated: Wednesday, March 6, 12:23 AM
MOSCOW Police say a ballet star at the Bolshoi Theater has confessed to being the mastermind behind an attack on the theaters ballet chief.
Moscow police said in a statement on Wednesday that Pavel Dmitrichenko, who has been suspected of planning the attack, has confessed.
Sergei Filin, the artistic director of the Bolshoi ballet, suffered severe burns to his eyes and face on Jan. 17 when an attacker threw a jar of sulfuric acid in his face as Filin returned home late at night. The 42-year-old former dancer is undergoing treatment in Germany.
Along with Dmitrichenko, police detained another man who confessed to perpetrating the attack.
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(160,545 posts)Russian Police Say Dancer and Two Others Confess to Bolshoi Attack
By ELLEN BARRY
Published: March 6, 2013
MOSCOW A dancer at the Bolshoi Ballet and two other men have confessed to carrying out an acid attack in January on the companys artistic director, Sergei Filin, a crime that gripped Moscow and left one of Russias most revered institutions in turmoil, the police announced on Wednesday.
Police officials detained the three men on Tuesday.
Investigators said that they believed that the dancer, Pavel Dmitrichenko, hired two men to accost Mr. Filin outside his apartment building late on Jan. 17. As Mr. Filin punched in an entry code, the police said, a masked man called his name and tossed the contents of a jar of sulfuric acid at his eyes.
At around 8 a.m. on Wednesday, a police spokesman told the Interfax news agency that all three men Mr. Dmitrichenko and the men he hired to throw the acid and drive a getaway car had signed confessions.
The crime set off weeks of soul-searching in this ballet-mad city, especially because Mr. Filin said he was sure he had been attacked over a professional grudge. Detectives worked their way through the ranks of the Bolshoi, becoming so entranced by the world of the ballet that they began asking Mr. Filin for tickets, he said in a recent interview.
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