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Subway bombing survivor says that it is difficult to put rubel value on damages

A survivor of this past April’s subway bombing said that it was difficult to put a rubel value on damages done to him by the attack as he was speaking at the trial of Dzmitry Kanavalaw and Uladzislaw Kavalyow in the Supreme Court on Tuesday.

Anatol Maroz, a resident of the village of Barawlyany in his mid 50s, said that the material damage caused to him by the crime was insignificant compared with his moral and physical sufferings.

He said that he was surprised at public prosecutor Alyaksey Stuk’s earlier statement that the attack was estimated to have caused more than 2,000,000,000 rubels worth of damage to the Minsk subway and only 175,000,000 rubels worth of damage to the victims. “The life of a person was appraised as if it were a bucket of paint,” he said.

When asked by another public prosecutor why he had refused to undergo a forensic medical examination as stated in the records of the pretrial investigation, Mr. Maroz said that he had not refused to be examined. He said that investigators had promised to invite him to the examination but had never done that. //BelaPAN