The prosecutor's office accuses the lawyers of the neonatologist Elina Sushkevich of deliberately organizing a media defense campaign. Recall, they wanted to find her guilty of killing a premature baby weighing 700 gram. After it became known about the initiation of a criminal case, the medical community came to the defense of his colleague. Patients and friends of the doctor did the same.
In the prosecutor's appeal, at the disposal of the FAN, states, that over two thousand publications appeared in the Kaliningrad media and social networks during the consideration of the criminal case, covering the progress of the trial. All of them, according to prosecutors, contain appeals to acquit the defendants, and appeared at the suggestion of lawyers.
Specific examples of materials are given, that, according to the prosecution, the jury was not supposed to see. mentioned, that they discredit the investigation. In particular, refers to the article of the popular Kaliningrad portal "Klops" "Roshal - about the case of Belaya and Sushkevich: there was no murder, I don't envy the jury".
“In a published article, the President of the National Medical Chamber, Roshal L.. M., commenting on the criminal case of Belaya E. AT. and Sushkevich E. FROM. He noted, that it would be difficult for a jury to make an informed decision, since “the judge did not give the floor to any representative of the professional community on the part of the defense in Kaliningrad in the Sushkevich case. Among them were leading neonatologists and toxicologists of Russia. There was no murder.", - retell the content of the material in the document.
The material of the same edition from 1 December 2020 of the year under the title "Outright arbitrariness is being committed in the court over her": doctors appealed to Putin in defense of neonatologist Sushkevich. His appearance is also blamed on lawyers. Prosecutors complain, that it contains the contents of an open letter from Russian medical workers to the President. The article is criticized, because the position of the prosecution is presented in a negative light.
"Indicated, that "doctors are discouraged, depressed and practically devoid of faith in justice, desire to work further. In their opinion, it became dangerous for the lives of doctors and their loved ones. Doctor anesthesiologist-resuscitator Elina Sushkevich has been under arrest for more than 1, 5 of the year. Everything is done, so that in front of all the citizens of our country publicly and cruelly, convicting a doctor of killing a patient, recognize, that doctors in our country are murderers and a threat to the health of the nation", - reported in the appeal submission of the prosecutor's office.
Besides, the prosecutor's office mentions the material of the regional publication "New Kaliningrad" "Magnesium was not introduced: What do independent experts think about the Sushkevich case?. It is assumed, that the content of the publication, concerning the online conference of expert toxicologists, could have influenced the jury's opinion about what Sushkevich and Belaya had done. The material criticizes the complex forensic medical examination, determined the cause of death of an infant, as well as investigators.
“A campaign launched in the media to discredit the evidence of the prosecution and the coverage of information, which, by virtue of law, must not be examined by a jury, had a truly colossal scale within the city, numbering less 500 000 population ", - Perplexed in the prosecutor's office.
Sushkevich's lawyers, in response to claims from the prosecution, declare, that they would not be able to independently organize a media campaign of this magnitude, and also mention, that the materials of regional publications were not cited by the federal media. It is also talked about, that in media publications Sushkevich and Belaya appear as murderers. Mentioned by lawyers and the reaction of the medical community.
“Statements of respected and authoritative representatives of the medical community, including the President of the National Medical Chamber L. M. Roshalia, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences N. n. Volodin, Chairman of the interregional charitable public organization "Association of Clinical Toxicologists", professors, doctor of medical sciences G. n. Sukhodolova are connected with their civic position and are based on the inner conviction of the innocence of the defendants in the incriminated act", they tell the court.
FAN previously reported, that the prosecutor's office filed an appeal in the case of the Kaliningrad doctor Elina Sushkevich. The acquitted wrote about this on her Facebook page..
Author: Lilia Scheblykina
