Attack on Bolshoi ballet chief Filin meticulously coordinated - police
MOSCOW. March 6 (Interfax) - Investigators said that the organizer of the attack on the Bolshoi Theater ballet chief, Sergei Filin, was meticulously coordinated.
"It was determined on the day the crime was committed when Filin left the Bolshoi Theater. The organizer informed that Filin was going home, where a perpetrator was waiting for him," the press office of the Moscow police chief directorate told Interfax.
A spokesperson for the Chief Directorate of the Moscow Internal Affairs Ministry said that police considered the Bolshoi Theater soloist Pavel Dmitrichenko to have both initiated and organized the attack.
"It has been determined that the organizer and people involved in the crime were studying the victim's schedule, the time he came home, so they purchased cell phones registered in the names of other people," the spokesperson said.
The perpetrator bought acid in a Moscow region shop selling car parts and to enhance the acid, he vaporized water from it.
"Colleagues from the Chief Directorate of Criminal Investigation and Tver region department have provided Moscow police with invaluable help at the final stage of the mission," the spokesperson said.
An unidentified person splashed acid in Filin's face on January 17.
