Posted on 03/27/2005 11:28:07 PM PST by familyop
A Novosibirsk court launched a new trial on the illegal sales of corpses to a German scholar.
The case is being tried for the third time. Previously, in November 2003 and July 2004, judges acquitted Vladimir Novosyolov, the chief of the Novosibirsk regional forensic department. However, both times prosecutors filed relevant petitions with higher instance courts and the court verdicts were cancelled, while the case was returned for reexamination.
Charges were brought up against Novosyolov in 2001 as part of investigation into the illegal sale of more than 50 dead bodies from Novosibirsk to a German scholar in 2000. The corpses were sent to Gunter von Hagens, who heads a private institute on plastination based in Heidelberg and who is known in the West as an avant-garde artist who hold shocking expositions with disjointed dead bodies.
Investigators indicate that Novosyolov was responsible for selecting dead bodies to be sent to Germany. The majority of sent corpses were homeless individuals while alive not searched by relatives for burial.
However, some of the dead had relatives, who are now qualified as affected persons. They searched for their dead relatives in morgues, but were told they had been incinerated already and given urns with unidentified ashes.
What was the word for such art? Die entartete Kunst?
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pung. Is this the guy?
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Culture of Death bump.
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