Nazi criminal Katryuk died in Canada

In Canada, at the 94th year of his life, Vladimir Katryuk died, who is accused of the murders of the inhabitants of Belarusian Khatyn during the Great Patriotic War, TASS reports citing The Globe and Mail.

As the lawyer of the Nazi criminal Orest Rudzik specified, Katryuk died last week in his house near Montreal in the province of Quebec. “He was sick for many years,” the lawyer added.

Vladimir Katryuk, one of the most wanted Nazi criminals, has lived in Canada since 1951. Canada deprived him of citizenship in 1999, when the truth was revealed about his war crimes. But in November 2010, the court returned him a Canadian passport.

In 2012, the activists of the Non -governmental organization Center for the Wizenthal managed to find documents confirming that Katryuk personally shot the inhabitants of Khatyn in 1943.

In early May, the Investigative Committee of Russia said that he initiated a case under an article on genocide against Vladimir Katryuk, who, according to the investigation, took part in the murders of the inhabitants of the Belarusian village of Khatyn during the Great Patriotic War, and began to seek his extradition.

On May 27, it became known that Canada refused to comply with the request for the issuance of Katryuk. "Recently, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against Vladimir Katryuk for participating in the mass murder of citizens in the village of Hatin. The case was opened under Article 357 of the Criminal Code - Genocide. Unfortunately, Canada, which was supposed to hold him accountable, refused us a request to issue Katryuk to bring him to criminal liability for the deed. And the international well -known judge or betray" judges " In fact, it was ignored.