The sensation in the Greenpeace case began with the court as the ship doctor is stopped by Ekaterina Zasp

Catherine behind bars remains calm. She has to spend a few more days in captivity until Greenpeace transfers a guarantee to a special account ...

Photo - Evgeny Feldman

“That's what the woman means - he got rid of it! - In the corridor of the court, Catherine Castater is discussed by the relatives of the accused in the Greenpeace case: at the meeting, they brought her in a blue scarf, which was coquettishly tied to her neck.“ And where only Katya took a scarf! I tried to pass on my husband, ”the wife of the press secretary of the Moscow office of Greenpeace Andrei was surprised Allahverdova Veronica. In a pre -trial detention center, their relatives have neither scarves nor laces in boots - it is believed that prisoners can hang themselves on them.

However, in the case of Catherine, it is immediately clear that suicidal thoughts do not threaten her. She stands in the court building behind bars and backs of the convoy wall, strictly and carefully looks at the prosecutors and investigator, demonstrates special, female courage with his whole appearance. Smiles only twice: when the human rights activist, winking at her, quietly puts the “horns” of the convoy, and when he watches the tricks of the photographer, which for the sake of the frame with her falls to his knees, then stands on tiptoe. Zapa shrugs with a smile, looking at her husband, as if wondering where such attention was from.

Ekaterina Zaspa is a "Arctic Sunrise" ship. She works in the hospital of the Academy of Sciences in Pushchino near Moscow, and went on swimming, taking a vacation at her own expense at work. Greenpeace was afraid for a long time that Katya would be fired from work, having learned what she was getting into. But in the clinic of the ISP, they gave a positive characteristic for the court and wait back: Catherine herself explained to the court that in her city she is the only specialist who owns all the methods of functional diagnostics.

At the meeting, the judge monotonously reads out the materials of the case: we can make out that, according to them, the Spop was "as part of the criminal group, united with a criminal purpose to attack the platform." Nothing more about her participation is said. And it is not surprising, because during an attempt to rise to the “Prirazlomnaya” platform and the skirmishes of ecologists with the border guards, I remained on the ship, outside the security zone around the platform, and could not threaten its work. “The investigation has not yet been completed,” the investigator is letting out sluggishly in response to the questions of the lawyer, what exactly is the fault of his client.

“Katya is a very kind and at the same time very strong person,” says Greenpeace employee Grigory Kuksin. “This is a common combination of qualities for those who work in the field of environmental protection, and especially in medicine. Otherwise, it is difficult to make decisions related to someone else's life. ”Kuksin himself in“ peacetime ” - says - he is engaged in the Greenpeace forest program, and now he lives in St. Petersburg, helps with programs, looking for apartments for coming relatives, collects documents for these affairs in St. Petersburg, and earlier in Murmansk there are constantly 25-30 Greenpeace activists.

Grigory knows Katya about fifteen years: together we were in the student squad of nature protection of the biofacment of Moscow State University. After Katya came to Greenpeace: a lot of volunteer, sometimes she worked for money, taking a vacation in the clinic. Mostly just according to the forest program: she was a doctor in Greenpeace children's teaching camps. "Any situation when we turned to her immediately became simple. It was her function as a doctor and a person. And now someone who could also help her just as easily."

Katya also met with her future husband thanks to Greenpeace: they met when they went to Baikal to clean the coast. Since then, has been together for ten years. Ilya Sharapov’s husband is a graying brunette, slightly stooped, taciturn and very modest. Entering the hall, he sat down in the corner, from where his wife was completely unaware, and huddled there until the volunteer pushed him to the place where Catherine could be seen between the spin of the convoy. Ilya remained there: for some time he simply, without taking his eyes, looked at his wife.

Throwing a job in Pushchino, Ilya spent several weeks in Murmansk, and when the accused was transferred, he moved after them to Petersburg: “I am always with her,” he says.

Hold on, Ilya, - I answer.
I have been holding on for a long time. It seems that he is already used to it, and every time .... - He breaks the phrase, but I guess: Ilya just saw his wife for the first time in a long time during the convoy. -She has no particular choice there, and all the time I have the feeling that I have to do something. And what can you change ...

Therefore, since the arrest of his wife, Ilya, as a volunteer, helps ecologists: so psychologically easier. Together with the activists, he wears the whole “thirty” programs: “In Murmansk, the line in the pre -trial detention center was occupied from 4 in the morning. Now, in St. Petersburg, this is better: when receiving programs, fruits are not cut in half”.

The judge goes to the decision, but soon returns - she had a desire to interrogate the representative of Greenpeace Andrei Sechkov, who offered a deposit for the doctor. The prosecutor suddenly does not mind letting the accused on bail, and this forces the entire support group in the court corridor to begin to hope hysterically for a miracle.

And it happens. Katya is the first: after a few hours, the same judge Meshcheryakova will let go on the bail of Denis Sinyakov and Andrei Allahverdov in the same way.

Catherine behind bars remains calm. She has to spend a few more days in captivity until Greenpeace transfers a security bail to a special account. Ilya in the courtroom begins to hug and clap on the back, and he still does not seem to understand what happened.