The lawyer of the Public Foundation the memory of Dyatlov’s group Yevgeny Chernousov said in an interview with TASS that the test in the case of Dyatlov’s group, who died in the mountains is illegal.
According to him, prosecutors had to cancel the removal resolution, to invalidate a criminal case, which was initiated after the tragedy at the pass, or if they find it lawful, to renew the proceedings in this case.
Chernousov indicated that the test could be held only within the framework uncovered a criminal case, and the case of the death of a group of tourists on the pass was discontinued on may 28, 1959 by order of the Prosecutor-criminalist. Thus, the recognition of it illegal gives you the opportunity to initiate a new criminal case.
The Prosecutor General’s office explained the decision by the group of Dyatlov
In this case, for testing, in the case of 1959 the Prosecutor’s office had to make a ruling on his resume and send to the Investigation Committee for investigation, the lawyer added.
In February of last year, 60 years after the incident, the Prosecutor General announced the audit in the case of the Dyatlov group. At a press conference on Saturday, July 11, a representative of the office of the Prosecutor General in the Urals Federal district Andrey Kurakov said that the group of Dyatlov died from avalanches. According to him, due to poor visibility people are unable to find the tent after we left it. He also said that the cause of death was that tourists went to 50 meters of its location, but the visibility in those weather conditions was only 16 meters.
The pass is named in memory of a tour group led by Igor Dyatlov, who died in the winter of 1959 in the Northern Urals. Then the mysterious deaths of nine skiers tourist club Ural Polytechnic Institute. According to the official forensic medical examination, most of the tourists froze, however, some of them were found to have severe injuries that caused the death.
