Moscow court orders Bolshoi dancer to stay in jail
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | April 16, 2013 21:55A Moscow court on Tuesday ordered the Bolshoi ballet dancer suspected of ordering an acid attack on its artistic director Sergei Filin to stay in detention until at least June 18, rejecting a petition for him to be freed.
The judge extended the arrest of leading Bolshoi dancer Pavel Dmitrichenko for the investigation to finish, ruling that he was suspected of a serious crime and constituted a flight risk.
His lawyer Violetta Volkova had earlier argued in court that 155 staff at the Bolshoi had signed a letter testifying to Dmitrichenko’s good character and supporters were prepared to post 500,000 rubles ($16,000) bail.
It is still not clear when the trial will start into the attack on Filin, the biggest scandal in the history of the great Russian theatre which also exposed bitter internal rifts.
Russian police detained Dmitrichenko in March, along with the suspected perpetrator and getaway driver in the plot against Filin that left him with eye damage and facial disfigurement.
Dmitrichenko initially made a televised confession which his lawyers later retracted.
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