The investigation established that on February 20, 2014, former law enforcement officials gave illegal instructions to subordinate officers of the PPS, Griffon and Berkut police departments to forcefully disperse protesters in the city.
Four former heads of police units will be tried for forcibly dispersing protests during the Revolution of Dignity in Cherkassy. The Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine reported this on Tuesday, March 19.
It is reported that the indictment against four former heads of departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in the Cherkasy region has been submitted to the court.
We are talking about the head of a department of the Public Security Department, the commander of a patrol service battalion, the commander of a special battalion of the judicial police, Gryphon, and the deputy commander of a special police company that Berkut, which is under the Ministry. of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in the Cherkasy region.
“The investigation found that on February 20, 2014, former law enforcement officials gave illegal instructions to subordinate officers of the PPS, Griffon and Berkut police units to forcefully disperse protesters in the city of Cherkassy . The officers of these units, following the illegal instructions of the accused, used unlawful violence against the protesters. As a result of this, 13 of them suffered bodily injuries with others’ t different levels of severity,” the report said.
Let us recall that on October 18, 2023, the Svyatoshinsky District Court of Kyiv announced the sentences for five former Berkut members in the case of shooting people on Instytutska Street in February 2014, when almost 50 people died.
And in November it became known that five more employees of the “black Berkut company” will be tried.
Source: korrespondent
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