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The Moscow City Court rejected the claim of Raoul Wallenberg's niece against the FSB
The Moscow City Court upheld the decision of the Meshchansky Court of the capital, which rejected the claim of the niece of the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, Marie Dupuy, against the FSB of Russia.
Dupuis demands information about her uncle's fate after his arrest in 1945. In particular, she wants to access pages from the logs of the call for interrogations and the logs of prisoners and their belongings. According to the lawyer representing Dupuis, Ivan Pavlov, these documents do not contain information about the personal lives of third parties.
The FSB, however, believes that the information required by Dupuis may discredit people not associated with Wallenberg.
“You want to publish information that someone was in prison, and his relatives now live there. And their neighbors may now think that if they were arrested, then there was something for it. Not every relative wants this,” the FSB spokesman said.
- Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg worked in Budapest during World War II and issued Swedish passports to local Jews to save them from deportation to Germany. When Soviet troops entered Budapest, Wallenberg was arrested.
- In 1954, the Soviet authorities announced that Wallenberg had died of a myocardial infarction in the Lubyanka prison (although they initially denied the fact of his arrest). The exact date of the diplomat's death is unknown; he probably died in 1947. In Sweden, Wallenberg was declared dead only in 2016, before that he was considered missing.
- The Wallenberg family is seeking the issuance of documents on the fate of the diplomat through the courts. In September 2017, the Meshchansky Court of Moscow denied the diplomat's relatives a lawsuit against the FSB, citing the fact that the papers they demanded may contain information about third parties.