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An inhabitant of the capital said he was cold and bought a hat from the hands. Apparently he did not know that the symbolism in his headdress is prohibited.
A 19-year-old Kyiv resident wearing a cap with ear flaps with communist symbols was arrested in Lviv. The young man faces up to five years in prison, according to police in the Lviv region.
The Kievite was arrested around 4.30pm in one of the cafes. They took off a cap with a cockade representing a red star, a sickle and a hammer.
In fact, the investigators of the Galician Police Department opened a criminal process under Part 1 of article 436-1 (production, distribution of communist symbols, Nazis and propaganda of the totalitarian communist and National Socialist (Nazi) regimes) of the Code Ukrainian criminal. The maximum penalty provided by the sanction of the article, – imprisonment of up to five years with confiscation of property. The pre-trial investigation continues, “police said in a statement.
According to the local newspaper Delo, ATO participant Igor Sholtis saw two guys, one of whom was wearing a hat with forbidden symbols. He carried out a “public arrest”.
“I asked them where they got this symbolism from. They said they bought it at a flea market because it was cold. They said they didn’t know that symbolism was forbidden. We did some explanatory work. It turned out that they were Russian-speaking Kyiv residents,” Sholtis said.
dilo.net.ua
Earlier we wrote that the St. George tape was banned in Latvia.
We add that a dealer of brochures with Soviet symbols was arrested in Krivoy Rog. The retiree pasted flyers with forbidden communist symbols on the posts. He now faces up to five years in prison.
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