Self-proclaimed imprisoned healer and clairvoyant Grigory Grabovoi has expressed his readiness to help Russian rescuers search for miners missing after a recent accident in a Siberian coalmine after a court decided to release him, his lawyer said on Thursday.
In 2005, Grabovoi made headlines all over the world when he promised to resurrect the children killed after Russian forces stormed a school that had been seized by Chechen militants in the North Caucasus town of Beslan. A total of 331 people, including 186 children, died in what has been referred to as Russia's 9/11.
Grabovoi has spent four years behind bars, including more than two years during an investigation. He may soon be released as a court in the Russian Urals city of Perm rejected on Thursday an appeal by the local prosecutor's office against the court's earlier decision to free Grabovoi.
During the court session, Grabovoi's lawyer said his client's "active repentance" made the decision to free him reasonable.
Grabovoi is ready to "make a reading of those places in the mine, where those alive can be found," he said.
Rescue work is still under way at the Raspadskaya coalmine in the west Siberian town of Mezhdurechensk following two explosions that hit the mine on the night of May 8-9. Sixty-six bodies were recovered from the mine, and 24 people are still missing underground.
Grabovoi has been bragging about his clairvoyant abilities allegedly allowing him to heal people's diseases, prevent plane crashes by revealing flaws in aircraft construction and perform other "miracles."
Commenting on Thursday's court decision, Stanislav Kolesnikov, a prosecutor at the Berezniki prosecutor's office in the Perm region, told journalists that the ruling can still be appealed within ten days after the full text of the decision is handed over to the prosecutor's office.
PERM, May 20 (RIA Novosti)
