Ballet dancer pavel dmitrichenko release
Dancer who arranged acid attack on Bolshoi's former artistic director is released early after serving less than three years of sentence..
Pavel V. Dmitrichenko, the dancer released from prison after being convicted of engineering an acid attack that exposed the hidden intrigues of the Bolshoi.
MOSCOW (AP) — A Bolshoi dancer convicted in 2013 for his role in an acid attack that scarred the face and eyes of the famed Russian ballet’s artistic director has been paroled, his lawyer said Wednesday.
Russian news agencies quoted the dancer’s lawyer Sergei Kadyrov saying that Pavel Dmitrichenko was released Tuesday after a parole commission granted his request for an early release.
Dmitrichenko was found guilty of asking an ex-convict to attack Sergei Filin, who ended up losing much of his sight after acid was tossed onto his face outside his Moscow home.
Dmitrichenko was sentenced to 5 1/2 years in prison in 2013.
Filin’s lawyer, Tatyana Stukalova, told Rossiya-24 television that she would appeal the ruling because she says Dmitrichenko poses a danger to her client.
The January 2013 attack and the ensuing trial revealed deep divisions at Russia’s most renowned theater.
Some Bolshoi dancers sided with Dmitrichenko, who insisted that he never contracted to have the attack done
