European television took off display film about Russia’s Magnitsky – Grani.Ru

The European TV channel ARTE has canceled scheduled for May 3 documentary film by Russian director Andrei Nekrasov about the deceased lawyer Sergei Magnitsky. It is reported by Radio Liberty, referring to the representative of ARTE Claude-Anne Savin.
 

 Broadcaster will check the accuracy of the complaints of the facts stated in the film, said Savin. However, according to her, the film “Magnitsky Act. Behind the scenes,” can still appear at ARTE broadcast “a few weeks”. In the meantime, the teaser of the film removed from the ARTE site.
 

 On Wednesday, the European Parliament canceled a planned screening of the film Nekrasov. According to the investment fund Hermitage Capital, William Browder, cancel the demonstration of the film was a surprise for him. Meanwhile, one of the show organizers, the lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, said that the event was canceled because of the blackmail Browder. “Show organizers received a letter from Mr. Browder, in which he simply frightened of lawsuits,” – she said. Veselnitskaya also noted that “the film was accused of pro-Russian propaganda”.
 

 In Nekrasov’s film claimed that Magnitsky in prison was not beaten that he had not testified against Russian officials and not investigating the theft of budget funds totaling 5.4 billion rubles.
 

 Earlier Wednesday, a lawyer of the deceased mother Natalia Magnitsky and his widow, also named Natalia, expressed protest in connection with the planned demonstration. “Any part of the film, any passage where the author tries to defame, denigrate Magnitsky, easily refuted by a huge number of documents, eyewitness accounts, the conclusions of the independent commissions and expert opinions,” – said in a statement Magnitsky.
 

 The document’s authors have called the film false and put it on a par with Russian propaganda tapes, filmed with a view to tarnish the name of Magnitsky and meet those involved in his death.
 

 It was also noted that in the film uses interviews taken Nekrasov Magnitsky mother, who she later banned the film include. This requirement is ignored Nekrasov, the authors of the statement, the words Magnitsky’s mother interpreted “absolutely unworthy perverse way.”
 

 Magnitsky, Hermitage Capital auditor in 2008 revealed embezzlement of budget funds in the amount of 5.4 billion rubles ($ 230 million at the then exchange rate). After that he was arrested on charges of tax evasion. November 16, 2009, a few days before the expiry of the imputed by him to become an annual period of detention, 37-year-old Magnitsky died in the metropolitan detention center-1 “Sailor’s Silence” under mysterious circumstances.