
The chairman of the Karelian branch of "Memorial" Yuri Dmitriev is justified under articles on the manufacture of children's pornography and depraved actions. The historian was sentenced to two and a half years restriction of freedom on charges of illegal storage of weapons, Mediazon reports . Given the deadline left in jail, he remains three months of punishment.
The Judge of the Petrozavodsky City Court Marina Nosova announced the sentence in closed mode. About two dozen supporters of the historian came to the hearing, they were not allowed to the courtroom.
Dmitriev was declared guilty under article 222 of the Criminal Code (illegal turnover of weapons). The historian was justified according to the paragraph "in" Part 2 of Article 242.2 (the use of a person under the age of 14 for the manufacture of pornographic materials) and article 135 (depraved actions). The prosecutor of Petrozavodsk Elena Askurova asked for the defendant nine -year -old real term .
The article on storing weapons Dmitriev was charged for a sawn -off shotgun found by him, which he selected several years ago in the courtyard of the children. The weapon was not suitable for shooting.
Dmitriev thanked everyone who supported him: "Without you, they probably would have eaten me and did not grimace. And when we all together - we chewed, chewed, spit out, could not swallow." According to Dmitriev, there is nothing to hope for the accused under such articles in the absence of public support.
"Somehow, probably, it’s not quite right to accept congratulations. With what is the congratulations to me? With the fact that I am not a pedophile, not this one, not the same - so I knew about it too!" - said Dmitriev.
On March 27, the historian made the last word in which he declared his innocence. At the hearing of the 27th, Dmitriev demonstrated a letter that he was in February last year, when he was sitting in a pre-trial detention center, wrote the adoptive daughter of Natalya, 11-year-old at that time, the photo of which, as evidence of guilt, are present in the case. This letter convincingly refutes the allegations that the historian undermined the mental health of his daughter and she was afraid of him, insisted Dmitriev in the last word.
It is still unknown whether he will be able to conclude a new agreement on custody of the adopted daughter.
Dmitriev was detained on December 13, 2016 and two days later sent to a pre -trial detention center. According to the plot of the case, he took pictures of Naked Natalia and kept a sawn -off shotgun at home.
In fact, the lawyer Anufriev noted, Dmitriev adopted a child with slow development and he was recommended to periodically photograph the girl to fix her condition. These pictures, the lawyer emphasized, were stored on Dmitriev’s home computer; He did not print them, did not publish and did not send anyone.
Hearing on the merits started on June 1, 2017. One of the leading Russian sexologists Lev Shcheglov, speaking in the process of June 22, gave a crushing assessment of the examination conducted at the request of the investigation.
On September 15, Judge Nosova appointed a second examination of photographs from the case file. At the insistence of Anufriev, the pictures were sent to the Federal Department of an independent forensic examination in St. Petersburg. The results of the study were announced on December 26. Experts unequivocally called the photo from the case non -inforographic.
After that, the prosecutor Askurov demanded a third study of the pictures. Then she announced the need to send a political prisoner to a stationary psychoexpertise to establish whether he needs enforcement. At the same time, an outpatient examination conducted during the investigation did not find sexual perversions from Dmitriev.
The next day, Nosova satisfied the petition of the prosecutor. Before the New Year, Dmitriev was taken to Moscow to the center. Serbian. On January 26, 2018, the Politsek was returned to Petrozavodsk, and the 27th was released on a recognizance not to leave , since Judge Nosov refused to extend the arrest of Dmitriev for a period after this date.
The results of the examination were announced in court on February 27 . Doctors of the Center named after Serbian confirmed that Dmitriev is not subject to sexual perversions, and photos in the case are not pornographic.