“I DON’T WANT TO TALK ABOUT THIS”

On April 15th, in the Zamoskvoreche regional court of Moscow, a few dozen people waited in Hall 203 for the miracle of Detective Kalchuk's appearance. Vladimir Ilych Kalchuk is Lord and God to the former 'Nord-Ost' hostages and the family members of those who perished during the terror attack. For 30 months, ever since the terrorists seized the Moscow theater, Kalchuk has been chief of the investigative brigade for the Moscow district attorney's office. He holds in his hands the true facts about the tragedy, and the victims awaited and still await any information he can provide concerning the deaths of their loved ones.

But Kalchuk is closed fellow, and hard to get to. There are hundreds of stories about him, about how he insulted a few of the 'Nord-Ost' people and would not share any facts with them. At long last, Judge Irina Vasina of the Zamoskvoreche court examined a complaint of 'investigative inaction', which was brought by former hostage Svetlana Gubareva, who lost her 13-year-old daughter Sasha and American fiance Sandy Booker at Dubrovka. Detective Kalchuk was officially summoned for questioning in the course of the lawsuit.

Participants: Svetlana Gubareva — plaintiff. Karina Moskalenko and Olga Mihailova — her lawyers. Representative of the Moscow District Attorney's Office — Yelena Levshina. Judge — Irina Vasina.

Moskalenko: “Did you or other members of the investigative group receive Gubareva's petition?”
Kalchuk: “I don’t remember. There were so many papers. I remember the plaintiff. (He reads the petition handed to him by Moskalenko.) Yes, I saw something like this.“
Moskalenko: “Gubareva states that you are displaying inaction in the case, that there were concrete questions in the petition, to which she received no answers.”
Kalchuk: “That’s her problem. I believe that my answers resolved everything.”
Moskalenko: “But from your answers it's still unknown how and where Gubareva’s two loved ones died.”
Kalchuk: “One. Booker was nobody to her, so far as I know.”
Gubareva: “Two!”
Kalchuk (laughing): “Plaintiffs always have these questions. It’s always 'invite in anyone you can’.”
Moskalenko: “I’m simply repeating those questions that Gubareva asked you in her petition. These are very important to her. When and where did death come to Letyago Alexandra? In the hospital? In the concert hall?"
Kalchuk (irritated, changing to 'blatnoi' criminal intonation): “Okay, we won’t screw around. I get a lot of these. Well, where did death come to Letyago? Ah… I don’t remember.”
Moskalenko: “But Gubareva states that you didn’t even find out the place of her daughter's death. Agree that this question, like the others, should not remain unanswered for her. Another question: did the investigative group find any substance, which was used by the special forces during the storming (of the theater)?”
Kalchuk: “I won't answer you anymore. I'm getting up and will be silent.”
Moskalenko: “The seventh question in Gubareva’s petition to you was: why were doctors called to Sandy Booker at 8:30, that is, two and a half hours afterwards?”
Kalchuk (interrupting): “I won’t answer.”
Moskalenko: “But you determined the circumstances of the victims’ deaths?”
Kalchuk: “I don't want to talk about this anymore.”
Moskalenko: “But you’re in court. You won't answer the judge?”
Kalchuk (openly rude): “No, I won’t answer.”
Moskalenko, turning to the judge: “I ask that you provide an answer to the question, which is especially important to Gubareva. How did Sandy Booker die?”
Judge: “And how may I ‘provide’?”
Kalchuk (smiling and muttering to the judge): “That means force me to talk.”
Judge to the lawyer: “I don't understand the point of irritating the investigator here. Why are you irritating him?”
Moskalenko: “People require concrete answers to questions as to why their loved ones perished.”
Kalchuk (though the judge did not address him): “I won’t speak anymore — you won’t get a thing out of me.”
The judge gives Gubareva permission to ask a question. Gubareva: “You have no doubts about the experts’ findings on the gas?”
Kalchuk: “You’re trying to draw me into discussion so that the media can write: ‘they’re just sitting on their butts’. I was called in so that they could make fun of me.”
Gubareva: “Don’t even think that I get satisfaction by returning over and over again to the circumstances of my loved ones’ deaths.”
Kalchuk: “I won’t come back. And I won’t answer. And don’t bother sending me your questions.”
This was a typical Russian judicial action, and as always merciless to its victims. Even though, like the investigation, it was supposed to have been of some use to the victims.

Comments (6)

4. Екатерине Written by Светлана Губарева , on 28-10-2010 18:25 Эта книга не продается, а распространяется среди желающих. Если Вы живете в Казахстане, свяжитесь со мной, я постараюсь помочь Report

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