The prosecutor's office asks to send historian Yuri Dmitriev for a psychiatric examination

Elena Askerova, the prosecutor of Petrozavodsk, suggested that the chairman of the Karelian "Memorial" Yury Dmitriev "has deviations of a sexual nature" and asked him to appoint an inpatient psychiatric examination. This is reported by Novaya Gazeta.

Dmitriev had already undergone an outpatient psychiatric examination during the preliminary investigation. Doctors did not find any abnormalities in the historian. The prosecutor claims that a second examination is needed to determine whether Dmitriev needs compulsory treatment.

The reason for the case against the historian was the photographs of the naked adopted daughter, which he kept on the computer. The defense insists that Dmitriev took photographs to record the physical development of the girl.

A re-examination of photographs of the adopted daughter of the historian Yuri Dmitriev established that the photographs were taken to control the physical development of the child and do not carry the purpose of making pornography. The first study, conducted by the Center for Socio-Cultural Expertise, considered nine out of 120 photographs to be pornographic.

• On March 2, Dmitriev was charged with indecent acts (Article 135 of the Criminal Code), illegal acquisition and possession or carrying of weapons (Article 222 of the Criminal Code), and taking photographs of a person under the age of fourteen in order to produce pornographic materials (Article 242.2 UK).
• The close heads of the Karelian "Memorial" consider the case the result of a provocation: before the case was opened against Dmitriev, for some unknown reason he was summoned for a conversation with the district police officer, and while Dmitriev was not at home, someone could get access to his the computer where the photos were stored.