Police Dancer Pavel Dmitrichenko 2 others confessed to Bolshoi acid attack

Middle East Times
Wednesday 6th March, 2013

Bolshoi Theater dancer Pavel Dmitrichenko and two other men admitted to their roles in the acid attack on the theater’s artistic director, Moscow police say. Dmitrichenko, the company’s lead solo dancer, signed a statement confessing he was the mastermind behind the assault on Sergei Filin, RIA Novosti said. Filin suffered burns to his face and eyes when a masked man threw sulfuric acid at him outside his apartment Jan. 17. Filin has undergone several surgical procedures to save his eyesight and is receiving follow-up treatment at a clinic in Germany. RIA Novosti said Yury Zarutsky admitte…

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