A scientist in a remote outpost in Antarctica plunged a kitchen knife into his colleague because he was fed up with the man telling him the endings of books, say investigators.

Sergey Savitsky, 55, and Oleg Beloguzov, 52, were avid readers to pass the lonely hours during four harsh years together.

But Savitsky became angry after Beloguzov kept telling him the endings, it is alleged.

The victim is now in intensive care after being flown from Russia’s Bellingshausen research station on King George Island to Chile with a knife injury to his heart.

Savitsky is back home in St Petersburg under house arrest and has been charged with attempted murder.

It is believed to be the first time a man has been charged with a murder bid in Antartica.

Spoilers in the snow.

As I was saying in the earlier discussion about Julian Assange, after a while of living in close quarters with someone who is not an intimate partner, small things become big things.

Under which jurisdiction was he charged?

Divine Angel said:

Under which jurisdiction was he charged?

I’m not certain, but I suspect it’s like maritime law where crimes fall under the flag state

Divine Angel said:

Under which jurisdiction was he charged?

I understand he was part of a Russian base, he turned himself in to the Russian base commander who organised the air evacuations. He is under house arrest in Russia, so I guess he has been chagred under Russian law.

yeah, pretty much the flag state, in this case Russia, but things gets complicated if it was one countries citizen against another…

https://people.howstuffworks.com/whos-charge-investigating-deaths-antarctica.htm

There was an Australian astrophysicist who died in Antarctica, poisoned, about a decade back.

dv said:

There was an Australian astrophysicist who died in Antarctica, poisoned, about a decade back.

Was Bubblecar there at the time? Another Rodney I believe…

dv said:

There was an Australian astrophysicist who died in Antarctica, poisoned, about a decade back.

yes, the link I put up mentions him…

“In May 2000, Rodney Marks, an astrophysicist spending the winter at the South Pole, died suddenly after an acute illness. He’d been vomiting blood and hyperventilating during the 24 hours before his death. Because no flights could land during the frigid winter, Marks’ body had to be stored for months until late October and then autopsied in New Zealand, Antarctica’s nearest neighbor.

The mysterious death touched off an international incident. Marks was an Australian working on a U.S. base (Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station) and the investigation into his death was being handled in New Zealand. If it turned out to be ruled a homicide, where would the case be tried?”

snip

“Ultimately New Zealand claimed legal jurisdiction in the Marks case, since it had possession of his body. An investigation uncovered no clear evidence of foul play, so there were no arrests or prosecutions. The leading theory is that Marks drank a bad batch of liquor, as his autopsy showed his body contained lethal traces of methanol.”

It’s not like you can head to the hills and lay low for a while.

Arts said:

A scientist in a remote outpost in Antarctica plunged a kitchen knife into his colleague because he was fed up with the man telling him the endings of books, say investigators.

Sergey Savitsky, 55, and Oleg Beloguzov, 52, were avid readers to pass the lonely hours during four harsh years together.

But Savitsky became angry after Beloguzov kept telling him the endings, it is alleged.

The victim is now in intensive care after being flown from Russia’s Bellingshausen research station on King George Island to Chile with a knife injury to his heart.

Savitsky is back home in St Petersburg under house arrest and has been charged with attempted murder.

It is believed to be the first time a man has been charged with a murder bid in Antarctica.

Not enough sex.

Update:

https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/antarctic-researcher-allegedly-stabbed-colleague-over-book-spoilers-/?fbclid=IwAR3k5iub8nbv9e_uJchFTVAvogAfQ_6IHvYp7md6vFbqqR_CsgYEhfz_IX4

“Under the Antarctic Treaty, workers accused of serious crimes at research bases are subject to the laws of their home country, reports the New York Times. “

Arts said:

Update:

https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/antarctic-researcher-allegedly-stabbed-colleague-over-book-spoilers-/?fbclid=IwAR3k5iub8nbv9e_uJchFTVAvogAfQ_6IHvYp7md6vFbqqR_CsgYEhfz_IX4

“Under the Antarctic Treaty, workers accused of serious crimes at research bases are subject to the laws of their home country, reports the New York Times. “

Latest news. It had nothing to do with book spoilers.

https://www.livescience.com/64012-antarctica-stabbing.html