Family of Ukrainian killed at Lisbon airport to receive compensation

The Ukrainian was beaten to death by immigration agents for allegedly trying to reach Portugal without a visa.

The Portuguese authorities will pay compensation to the family of the Ukrainian citizen Ihor Gomenyuk, who was killed at the airport in the capital. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry asked the Portuguese authorities for an objective and impartial investigation of the high-profile case. reported Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on his Twitter page on Thursday, December 10.

“I was in contact with my Portuguese colleague in the murder of our citizen Igor Gomenyuk in March, he insisted on justice. Today, the Portuguese government decided to pay compensation to the widow and children.”

Let us remember that the 40-year-old Ukrainian died in March 2020 in the Lisbon airport detention center after being beaten with truncheons by agents of the Service for Foreigners and Borders (SEF).

Gomenyuk reportedly tried to get to Portugal without a valid visa, for which he was placed in an isolation room.

According to media reports, the Ukrainian had an epileptic seizure, was hospitalized, but then returned to the airport isolation room, where he was beaten again in a room without CCTV cameras, after which he died.

We recall, on Wednesday, December 9, that the head of the Service for Foreigners and Borders (Migration Service) SEF Krishtina Gatoes resigned.

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