Russian Man Who Claimed He Raised the Dead Sentenced to Prison
Site of the Beslan Siege
A Russian man who claimed he could raise the dead and heal the sick was unable to persuade a court from sentencing him to 11 years of hard labor for 11 counts of fraud.
A Russian judge sentenced Grigory Grabovoy to 11 years hard labor after he was found guilty of defrauding people while his supporters are of the opinion he’s being “unfairly prosecuted”.
Grabovoy was paid 118,000 rubles by a woman to “raise” her two dead sons. Since there’s been no mention of anyone having been raised lately from the dead in Russia, we assume Grabov failed to deliver.
Grabovoy showed his ghoulish sociopathic behavior knew no bounds as he also met with some of the mothers of the children who had perished in 2004′s hostage crisis in Beslan, where 186 children died.
Over 1000 people, many of them children, were taken hostage by Chechen terrorists on September 1, 2004, in the town of Beslan in southern Russia.
Some of the hostages were murdered during the initial stage of the hostage taking. The remaining, many of them children, were herded into the school’s small gym where the floor was covered in mines and bombs connected by cables. Bombs were taped to the walls and two large bombs were hung inside the basketball hoops.
The children were placed in front of the windows, used as shields. They were forced to drink their own urine as their school gym had become a sweltering prison and eventually the place where many would die a horrible death.
On the third day the terrorists had agreed to let emergency workers into the school to retrieve the dead bodies of hostages from the initial take-over. It was then that explosions and gunfire were heard. Russian security forces and parents armed with their own weapons stormed the school.
Investigators later claimed the first explosion was from the Chechen terrorists rewiring a bomb, eye-witnesses claim the emergency workers were armed and had shot the rebel who held a detonator switch. Hostages took flight as the school roof collapsed from a second large explosion.
After Russian forces took control of the building, the bodies of hundreds of victims, many of them children, were found in the crumbled building that once housed the school’s gym. All but one of the Chechen terrorists were killed. Some of the children’s bodies were so badly burned that DNA testing was used to identify them.
Grabovoy, the man who claimed he could raise the dead, spoke with several of the mothers whose children had suffered and died at Beslan. It’s reported that Grabov offered to raise those children from the dead… for a fee.
We wondered, did this man offer people’s money back once he failed to raise their dead?
“I’ll raise your dead or your money back plus two relatives healed for free!”
There is a special place in Hell for such persons as Grabovoy. Until then he can contemplate his pathetic existence while serving 11 years of hard labor in a Russian prison.
By LBG
Source - Reuters – Court Convicts Man who says he can raise the dead
Source – BBC – Beslan School Siege
Image – Beslan School
To Mass Media
Dear Colleagues!
On October 21st, 2007 participants of the international social movement ДРУГГ, supporters and followers of Grigory Grabovoy have started INDEFINITE HUNGER-STRIKE for HUMAN RIGHTS, as an extreme form of the protest against legal totalitarianism and judicial arbitrariness in Russia and around the World.
Hunger-strike has begun in Moscow and people from different cities around Russia and other countries are joining in. Photos and videos from the strike, petitions and support letters are available on-line. You can find out about most recent developments of the strike at http://drugg.su (mirror site: http://golodovka2007.narod.ru ).
Today the Russian mass-media have declared informational blockade to these people. They were portrayed to the public as «swindlers» and «dangerous sectarians». What for?!
Law-enforcement and judicial institutions could not answer this question for the past one and a half years. Starting in April, 2006Grigory Grabovoy is detained in Leftovo Investigative Unit, as socially dangerous criminal, even though the structure and events of a crime were never determined. There is NOTHING about Beslan in materials of the criminal case. Nevertheless, the theme of Beslan became one of the basic reasons for blown up mass-media campaign against Grabovoy, and a formal reason for his detention on April 5th, 2006. And there is no refutation in mass-media of this hoax.
As an independent journalist, I was engaged in investigation of this case and with all responsibility I declare that all accusations against Grigory Grabovoy mismatch the reality.
One can treat Grigory Grabovoy as a scientist, politician, religious or public figure, accept or decline his ideas, scientific paradigm, his call for revival of Christian morals, ideas of the Eternal life and Resurrection. HOWEVER, right now it is a question of infringement of the HUMAN RIGHTS and FREEDOMs, PRESUMPTION of INNOCENCE, violation of laws and the Constitution of the Russian Federation, norms of international law protecting honour and virtue of an individual and a citizen and his rights.
Legal experts have confirmed unlawfulness of Grabovoy’s detention, and classified it as totalitarianism of courts and an investigation, crime against an individual, political and religious prosecution, absolute infringement of human rights in a context Grabovoy’s activities on the struggle against terrorism and prevention of accidents of natural and technogenic character.
For example, V.V.Stepanov, the expert in remedial organization for human rights, has confirmed back in June, 2006 that there are signs of falsification of the evidence and procedural violations in the case against Grabovoy.
Criminal prosecution against Grabovoy was initiated for his scientific, religious, socio-political and educational activities, as he was accused in encouraging religious beliefs, establishing of a political party and distributing anti-terrorist technologies which allow to predict and prevent acts of terrorism and other accidents with 100 % accuracy.
Hushing up from mass-media and public organizations of this situation with illegal criminal and political prosecution of Grabovoy promotes its development and the further degrades the situation with human rights in our country, which can lead to full disappearance of such rights, as freedom of speech and creeds and the right to elect and be elected, the right to use one’s abilities at his own will, the right to receive and distribute information, and the right of Life.
One of the participants of hunger-strike, Margarita Babak, wrote in her petition: “I chose this extreme measure as all other means to which I resorted such as letters, petitions, articles, press conferences, meetings, pickets and so forth, have not been heard. I was cast in deep despair by comprehension that in my country, Russia, constitutional and other rights and freedoms are not guaranteed. By endangering my life, I hope to draw attention to the unlawful character of Grigory Grabovoy’s case, and by that to protect the right of all Russian citizens.
Larissa Bochanova, a member of the Union of journalists of Russia, Novosibirsk phone: 8-913-205-14-08
lora136@mail.ru
In support. Independent investigation of criminal case #376062 on Grabovoy swindle. /March-June 2007.
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