Pavel Dmitrichenko, the Bolshoi dancer imprisoned on suspicion of instigating the acid attack against artistic director Sergei Filin, said he denied planning the assault during an audience in Moscow yesterday.
He told the court that he’d told his ‘accomplice’ Yury Zarutsky, to hit Filin, but nothing more.
I did not imagine that this person [Zarutsky] was capable of such a cruel and inhuman crime.
the RAPSI legal news agency reported Dmitrichenko as saying.
I am happy that Filin is returning to work at the Bolshoi Theatre. The main thing is that he now recovers after the inconceivable crime committed by Zarutsky, with whom I am unfortunately acquainted.
During a court session in June, Zarutsky said,
I didn’t intend to damage his health.
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