One of the activists who received suspicion in the case of riots near the Office of the President, the chairman of the public initiative “Protect Protasov Yar” Roman Ratushny, demands that Deputy Interior Minister Anton Gerashchenko remove the edited video of the action as containing false information and offending the honor and dignity of the activist.
Roman Ratushny, a Kiev activist and chairman of the public initiative Protect Protasov Yar, is demanding an apology from Deputy Interior Minister Anton Gerashchenko and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, as well as a refutation of false information regarding his participation in the rally near the President’s Office on March 20.
Corresponding statement from Ratushny on March 24 published on your Facebook page.
This is about edited video with participants of the action under the Office of the President, which Gerashchenko published the day before. He called the defendants in the recording “a bunch of provocateurs” who “set fire to doors, beat windows, and called for hooliganism.” Gerashchenko assured that the participants in these events “have been identified and will be responsible for their actions.” Some of the participants were identified by their clothes.
This video featured an activist wearing a hat, hood and face shield, among others. The Interior Ministry claims that this is Roman Ratushny. Today The Town Hall was handed a suspicion.
The activist himself denies his involvement in any illegal actions during the action.
Ratushny also points out that the video released by Gerashchenko contains his personal data (full name, occupation) and images that are not related to the action, permission for the use of which he neither the Ministry of Internal Affairs nor personally Gerashchenko gave.
The activist notes that this video humiliates his honor and dignity, negatively affects his business reputation, “and is also an obvious violation of the presumption of innocence.”
Ratushny draws attention to the fact that the “unidentified masked person” in the video does not commit any illegal actions.
“However, the video contains my personal data and a photograph, which, in the general context of the video and accompanying inscriptions, create an impression on a third-party viewer of my involvement in illegal actions and the existence of grounds for criminal prosecution. And this is not true. Therefore, I believe that this video contains unreliable and negative information about me, which offends my honor and dignity and harms my business reputation. I demand that this information be removed, refuted and apologized, “the activist said.
In case of ignoring their demands, Ratushny plans to go to court and demand compensation for moral damage.
Town hall stated also that the persecution of him for participating in the action under the Office of the President is revenge for his activities to protect Protasovy Yar from illegal development. According to the activist, the suspicion was “pushed through” by the deputy head of the OP, Andrei Smirnov.
In Kiev, on March 20, at the President’s Office, action in support of Sternenko… The protesters demanded the release of Sternenko, a defendant in the case of the murder of journalist Pavel Sheremet Andrei Antonenko, to impose sanctions on the former deputy head of the administration of the fourth president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, Andriy Portnov. They also demanded the resignation of Prosecutor General Irina Venediktova and Interior Minister Arsen Avakov.
Protesters threw flares, noise grenades, and then launched fireworks. It was broken glass in the building of the control room, the walls were painted, and the sign “President of Ukraine” was set on fire.
Meeting organizer Sergey Filimonov considers the last action peacefulsince there were no casualties on it. He added that a performance was being prepared for the action, but the organizers did not plan to smash windows and smoke bombs.
In the OPU estimated the damage from the riots at UAH 2 million… According to message on the website of the President’s Office, As a result of the launch of fireworks, the doors and the interior decoration of the vestibule of one of the entrances were damaged.
March 22 a cleaning company began to clear the building of inscriptions. Director of the company Sergey Kozolup estimated the term of work at four days. When asked about the estimated cost of the work, Kozolup replied: “Definitely not 2 million.”
Gerashchenko said that the provocateurs had a plan for bloodshedbut the police did not allow it. Police investigates events as hooliganism.
Sternenko was found guilty on February 23 in the case of the kidnapping of the ex-deputy of the Comintern district council of the Odessa region, Sergei Shcherbich. He was sentenced to seven years and three months in prison. with the arrest of half of all property. Another person involved in the case, Ruslan Demchuk, received the same term. Both were arrested in the courtroom. The case in which Sternenko appears, have been investigating since 2015… He and Demchuk were arrested, but later released on bail… Sternenko denies any involvement in the incident.
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