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A support group for the musician Andrei Antonenko, accused of the murder of journalist Pavel Sheremet, blocked the exit of a van from the courtyard of the Court of Appeal in Kiev. The Metropolitan Police undertakes to give legal qualification to the actions of each participant in the incident.
The National Police intends to give legal qualification to the actions of each participant in the clashes before the Kiev Court of Appeal, where the case of the musician and military officer Andrei Antonenko, accused of the murder of journalist Pavel Sheremet, was heard today. This is confirmed by the statement from the capital’s police chief, published on Facebook.
After the court session, a group of citizens blocked the exit of official vehicles from the court’s territory. They did not react to requests from the police to stop the illegal actions, they went out onto the Solomenskaya Street road and blocked traffic.
The police tried to create a corridor for the passage of a special car, there were clashes “with active participants in the action.”
Later, traffic was restored on Solomenskaya Street.
Depending on the results of the control, offenders may incur administrative or criminal responsibility, warned the National Police.
On October 6, the Court of Appeal left Antonenko in custody. Near the courthouse, a support group for the person involved in the Sheremet case blocked a rice wagon, special police forces dispersed the crowd.
Antonenko was arrested on December 12, 2019; he was sent under arrest on December 14. Since then, the preventive measure has been constantly expanded.
Sheremet died on July 20, 2016 in Kiev as a result of the explosion of a car belonging to the co-founder of the newspaper “Ukrainian Truth”, the wife of journalist Alena Pritula. The prosecution described the incident as a first-degree murder committed as dangerous to the lives of many people. According to investigators, the journalist was killed to destabilize the situation in Ukraine.
On December 12, 2019, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov announced the arrest of those suspected of being involved in Sheremet’s murder. Later that day, the National Police gave the names of those probably implicated: the military nurse Yana Dugar, the military and musician Antonenko and the doctor Yulia Kuzmenko.
Investigators believe that Kuzmenko and Antonenko planted the explosives under Sheremet’s car. The latter was called the organizer of a criminal group. Dugar was allegedly involved in “intelligence”: she was searching for CCTV cameras on the conspirators’ route. On May 21, it was learned that the text of the suspicion had been modified. The current issue says that Kuzmenko only planted the explosives together with Antonenko, but did not activate them.
On May 22, the police notified the defense of the suspects about the end of the pre-trial investigation. All three people involved in the case deny their guilt.
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