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I repeat below completely the message sent to my family by Kristian Gravenor
on January 12, at 5.57 A.M.!!!

----- Original Message -----
From: Kristian Gravenor <kgravy@CAM.ORG>
To: <hollyric@colba.net>
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 5:57 AM
Subject: (no subject)

> Hi. My name is Kristian. I am a newspaper writer for the Montreal Mirror
> and have been interested in the posts written under the name Fabrikant.
> Some of them are interesting and might warrant some media attention.
> Could you phone me to talk? I'm at 514-487-0101. That's my home number.
> Please call. Thanks. kg.
>

When I have read this message, I decided to give him a chance, but before I
wanted to test whether he had what it takes to be a reporter. So I called
him and I told him that if he wants an interview with me, he has to show me
first what he can do.  I asked him whether he read my posting about Tina
Diaz, he said yes, so I asked him to investigate it.  That was the end of
conversation.  He sounded ecstatic, he was mumbling: "Are you really the
famous Valery Fabrikant, Professor at Concordia?" Have in mind, he did not
call me then neither mass-murderer, nor infamous.  I was FAMOUS and he
wanted an interview with me badly.

A week later, I called him again to check, and it was clear to me that he is
yet another sleazy reporter, so I hanged up on him.  That is the end of the
story.  Now, he understood, that he would never get any interview with me,
but he decided to publish something anyway, and he did.  Just look at the
first sentence:

> The phone rang in my quiet Saturday morning living room. "This is
> Fabrikant," said the voice.  "Look in the case of Tina Ruiz".

Several lies right away: first, the reader gets impression of an unsolicited
call from me, second, he deliberately omitted half of what I told him (see
above), third: he falsified the girl's name.  Why? because he does not want
public to know the real name (I understand that her parents - very simple
people - still do not know the truth).

Then we read below:

> ... Fabrikant has recently championed the cause of fellow inmate who he
> argues was unjustly convicted of killing Tina Ruiz.  Fabrikant claims
> that staff from local emergency room conspired to allow her to die of
> stab wounds in August.

Half truth is worse than lie.  First, I do not champion the case of fellow
inmate, I have little respect for people, who abuse women. According to law,
whether Tina Diaz died because of medical neglect or not, the guy, who
stabbed her is considered a murderer, so even if the doctor in question
would be convicted, it changes nothing for "fellow inmate".  Second, he
again falsifies her name, and does not name the hospital, where it happened
(St-Mary's), and does not give the year either. The reader might think it
happened last August.

I am not going to spend my time examining the nonsense written, but in the
last sentence of the article, Gravenor quotes me as saying that I would not
talk to him, and he says: "Hopefully, that's a promise", which creates
impression that it was I who wanted to talk to him in the first place.
Yellow liar, yellow liar, yellow pants on yellow fire...

V.I. Fabrikant