Wednesday, April 22, 2009

The body of the deceased Russian tourists in Egypt were amateur rock climbers.

The body of the dead in Egypt tourist Borisa Maksimova found Russian climbers, not the Egyptian rescuers, as previously reported. About IA writes Rosbalt.
According to the Agency, the body of Boris Maximov, disappeared on the night of 15 April 2009 in the area of Mount Moses in the Sinai peninsula, were Russian instructors windsurfing and rock climbers, lovers of Dahab (a resort 100 kilometers north of Sharm el-Sheikh), Alexander Demyanyuk and Eugene Lisichkin. Gather the necessary equipment has helped Russian community in Dahab. Climbers claim that Egyptian rescuers did not show due respect to the accident.
Tuesday, April 21, media rastirazhirovali information that the search operation was carried out by Egyptian rescuers who found the body in a narrow gorge, where 18-year-old broke Maximov with the 250-meter height. During the operation of the Egyptians have difficulties with the rise of the body to the surface: the Russian and told the Egyptian television.
Eugene Lisichkin April 22, wrote in his blog, which is outraged by this "enormous lie" (note: a lot of unprintable vocabulary).
In turn, the colleague Lisichkin Alexander Demyanyuk told Komsomolskaya Pravda that they get their own equipment and started a search operation on 20 April: "We just thought, which could make the boy, who was fond of photography. There is a place where you can make the best photos Monastery of St. Catherine, this is a very dangerous place, without insurance there is nothing to do. Egyptian military could not find him there, because they do not have climbing equipment. Bedouins gathered near screaming that we lose time in vain, it's not there. But we still gone. "
Also Demyanyuk stated that they "saw Boris still on top, once it was clear that the guy is already dead ... I called the Consul, reported that we have found the body. Then came down to it ... We told the authorities how to raise the body the top. "
Recall Boris Maximov came to Egypt from Krasnoyarsk, along with her mother Svetlana Maximova April 12 to 10 days. The evening of April 14, he went to night excursion to the mountain of Moses, along with six tourists. By tourist bus Maximov did not return.
After that, the mother of the deceased, Svetlana Maksimova, which is now in intensive care because of a heart attack, called the police, where she took a statement after day. The search operation, organized by the police, did not produce results, and April 19 to find the helicopter joined the Egyptian Air Force.
Note that all this took place against a background of disputes about who should pay for the work of the pilots. Reported that the travel agency, which used the services of Russian tourists who refused to pay for the searches. As a result, money has been collected by relatives Maksimova. Later, Egyptian authorities have promised to return the money Svetlana Maximova.
According to latest information, the body of the young men had arrived at the hospital where his mother, for formal identification, but Svetlana Maksimova could not participate due to ill-being. Pre-Boris Maximov already identified for personal things.

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