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Cherkasy mayor’s lawyer Anatoly Bondarenko Denis Tsypin said Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and his representatives never appeared in court in the mayor’s lawsuit, “they were hiding in Bankova.”
The mayor of Cherkasy, Anatoly Bondarenko, will appeal the decision of the Kiev Pechersk District Court, which rejected his claim to the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, on the protection of honor and dignity. Bondarenko’s lawyer, Denis Tsypin, told the Hromadske television channel.
The mayor of Cherkasy asked the court to recover a moral damage hryvnia from Zelensky, after he said: “I can’t even talk about the mayor of Cherkasy. I don’t even know how to speak when the mayor has 19 criminal proceedings. Who? I will not sit at the same table with those bandits. “
The mayor’s attorney, commenting on the filing of the claim in court, said: this is the “answer” to the fact that “Zelensky called Bondarenko a bandit. “They asked to refute this phrase as false information.
The court decided that Zelensky’s sentence, against which Bondarenko appealed, was his value judgment, which does not contain deliberately false information.
According to Tsypin, the president and his representatives never appeared in court, “hiding in Bankova Street”.
“Unfortunately, the court of first instance sided with the president. The judge pointed out that anyone in our country can be called a bandit and this is not an insult, but a value judgment, a personal opinion of a person who you have to respect, “said the lawyer.
He added that during the consideration of the appeal, he hopes to convince the judges that “the president, as the guarantor of our rights and freedoms, must know that the honor and dignity of a citizen is the highest value in the state, this is a direct rule of our Constitution “.
Bondarenko was elected mayor of Cherkassy in 2015.
In May 2020, became a defendant in the scandal associated with the coronavirus epidemic. The Executive Committee of the City Council decided to mitigate in Cherkasy quarantine restrictions from May 1 – even before the nationwide weakening began. The intention of the Cherkasy authorities was criticized by the central authorities.
On May 1, Zelenskiy conveyed “greetings” to Bondarenko from the Ukraine Security Service and the Interior Ministry, and on May 20 he said that he would not sit at the same table “with those bandits.” On May 26 it was known that the mayor went to court.
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