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Experts in the case of historian Yuri Dmitriev did not find pornography in the case
On February 27, the Petrozavodsk City Court examined the results of an examination in the case of Yury Dmitriev, a historian and chairman of the Karelian "Memorial", who is accused of producing pornography. Speakers in the process of experts of the Institute. Serbsky did not find signs of pedophilia, the 7 × 7 publication writes about this , citing a lawyer.
“From the results it follows that, like all of us, he is a bit strange, but healthy. In sexual terms, it is directly written that he is not a pedophile, the photos of his adopted daughter were taken for completely different purposes. He didn’t do anything harmful to the girl, ”lawyer Viktor Anufriev told the publication.
on Facebook Olga Drobot added that the prosecutor's office did not make any new petitions. Witnesses will be questioned on March 14, the prosecutor will speak on March 20, and the lawyer will speak on March 22.
On January 27, Dmitriev left the pre-trial detention center on bail.
Previously, the historian was at the Serbsky Institute, where he underwent a psychiatric examination from the end of December 2017. Then he was sent to the Moscow pre-trial detention center No. 2 "Butyrka".
On March 2, 2017, Dmitriev was charged with indecent acts (Article 135 of the Criminal Code), illegal acquisition and storage or carrying of weapons (Article 222 of the Criminal Code), and taking photographs of a person under the age of fourteen for the purpose of producing pornographic materials (Article 242.2 of the Criminal Code). ).
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.
The reason for initiating proceedings 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 December 28, the Petrozavodsk City Court decided to release Dmitriev on bail. A day earlier, the court granted the prosecutor's request to send the man to an inpatient psychiatric examination. Although Dmitriev had already undergone an outpatient psychiatric examination during the preliminary investigation.