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Protests in Kiev over Sternenko’s verdict (Photo: hromadske)
Clashes broke out in the President’s Office between law enforcement officers and protesters in support of convicted Odessa activist Sergei Sternenko.
The activists demand to let them go to the building of the President’s Office, where law enforcement officers blocked the way.
According to the NV correspondent, there are several victims after the fight. The Rapid Response Unit provides assistance.
According to the BBC, around 8:35 p.m., a crush broke out and a fire flew towards law enforcement officers.
According to eyewitnesses, fights broke out between protesters and law enforcement officers. The protesters shout «Shame, “” Avakov’s Devil “,” Sternenko will do it “and throw snowballs at the police.
Sternenko test
On February 23, the Odessa Primorsky District Court convicted and sentenced activist Sergei Sternenko to seven years and three months in prison with the confiscation of half of his assets.
The decision was made in the case of the kidnapping of the newly elected deputy of the Kominternovskiy district council of the Odessa region Sergei Shcherbich on April 24, 2015.
The man was kidnapped by five men and tortured, demanding that he renounce the mandate he was to receive on April 30. After Shcherbich was released, he went to the police.
Six months later, Sergei Sternenko, who was then the leader of the Odessa cell of the Right Sector, and his associate Ruslan Demchuk were arrested on suspicion of kidnapping. Together with them, on suspicion of vandalism and violence against an employee of the prosecutor’s office, they arrested Odessa Automaidan leader Yevgeny Rezvushkin.
The Court of Appeal allowed Sternenko to be released on bail in the amount of 60,000 hryvnia. Bail money was collected the same day and Sternenko and Demchuk were released.
According to Sergei Sternenko, the case is based solely on Shcherbich’s testimony. The activist also said he was charged with illegal possession of weapons, although he voluntarily handed over his starter pistol to police during a search in 2015.
Sergei Sternenko is also suspected of premeditated murder and illegal possession of weapons: in 2018 he was attacked by Alexander Isaikul and Ivan Kuznetsov, the latter, as a result of resistance from an activist, was killed by a knife. On January 29, 2021, Sternenko was released on bail to the people’s deputy from the Golos faction Roman Lozinsky.
