Detention of a suspect in the murder of "Berkutovtsy" on the Maidan led to scandals in Ukraine

April 3 to the participant of the Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine Ivan Bubenchik was announced about the suspicion of the murder of two law enforcement officers on Independence Square in Kiev in the winter of 2014.

Ivan Bubenchik.
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Prosecutors demanded that Bubenchik choose a preventive measure in the form of detention, but Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko said that he “considers the actions of a participant in the Revolution of Dignity to be incorrectly classified” and decided to replace the group of prosecutors in this case.

In addition, clarifications on this high-profile case were demanded from investigators in the Ukrainian parliament, where they consider unjust to detain a member of the Maidan for the murder of law enforcement officers until all those who shot peaceful Protestants were punished.

Who is Ivan Bubenchik

48-year-old Jingle Bell from Lviv is a former military intelligence officer. He spent several months in Nagorno-Karabakh during the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

In 2013, from the first days of the protests on the Maidan, he arrived in Kiev, where he and his son spent three months.

With the outbreak of the conflict in eastern Ukraine, he volunteered for the ATO zone, where he spent a total of about two years, and was awarded the Orders “For Courage, III Class” and “For Defense of the Country.”

The name of Ivan Bubenchik became widely known after the documentary was released in the winter of 2016 of the year “Prisoners ”(“ Brantsi ”) with his participation.

In this tape, directed by Vladimir Tikhiy, this is a man who, on February 20 of 2014, decided to open fire on security forces to stop the shooting of unarmed people on the Maidan.

According to Bubenchik, he shot at the Berkut officers from a Kalashnikov assault rifle, brought to the Maidan by a young guy along with 75 rounds of ammunition.

“A guy came and brought a machine gun in a bag in which they carry tennis rackets. And he said that he couldn’t take it in his hands. He found us and asked who could. I asked God for a weapon, and of course I took it. And since I am a trained military intelligence officer who went through school, I know what to do with weapons,” Bubenchik said.

According to him, he fired several shots from the Conservatory building at law enforcement officers stationed at the Independence Stele, and then another series of shots at the feet of the Berkut fighters from behind the shields of the Maidan fighters.

“For three months we stood without weapons, for three months we asked this freak (ex-President Viktor Yanukovych) to leave our country. But he didn't hear it. Hopelessness made it possible to use weapons against them, because they used them against us,” Bubenchik explains his actions.

Investigation of the Bells

The last four years, from the very beginning of the investigation of the executions on the Maidan, Ivan Bubenchik was held as a witness in the criminal proceedings about the murder of law enforcement officers in the winter of 2014. After his confession in 2016, in the film “Prisoners,” the prosecutor’s office repeatedly called Jingles for interrogations, which he, he said, regularly visited. Investigators also conducted a search in his house.

On April 3, the Jingle Bean was arrested at the border with Poland and taken to the Pechersk court of Kiev, where he was announced that he was killed by two law enforcement officers, another wounded and carrying a firearm without a statutory permit.

The articles imputed to him impose a sentence of imprisonment from 10 to 15 years or life imprisonment.

“When we wanted to carry out investigative actions, he said that he did not consider it necessary to come, that is, he avoided performing procedural duties. And therefore, there are no other mechanisms to involve him in investigative actions other than coercion,” explained Aleksey Donskoy, prosecutor of the Special Investigations Department of the Main Investigation Department of the Prosecutor General’s Office, about the forced bringing of the suspect to court.

On April 3, the Pechersk district court of Kiev postponed the election of a measure of restraint to Jingles, interrupting its meeting for an indefinite period, due to the fact that the lawyer of the suspect asked for a postponement to get acquainted with the case materials.

The activist himself considers the charges absurd: “I have not once voiced that the people of Ukraine must defend someone, I did it. I did it forcedly, since they took all the other tools from us, and I had to protect them in the way I protected them. ”

Investigation of the murders of activists on the Maidan

In this case, the investigation into the killings of protesters on the Maidan is progressing very slowly. The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine as a whole investigates more than 2 thousands of crime episodes during the Maidan, reports RIA News Ukraine.

According to the head of the department of special investigations of the Prosecutor General’s Office Sergey Gorbatyuk, all in all during the 18-20 skirmishes in February, 78 participants of the Maidan were killed, 278 were injured. At the same time, the most people, about 50 people, were killed on February 20 on Institutskaya Street near Maidan. The investigation found that gunshot wounds from automatic weapons caused their deaths.

In the case of the death of people on the Maidan, 60 people have the status of suspects, but there are no verdicts in these cases yet.

In general, in criminal cases involving offenses during the Revolution of Dignity, 1800 people are considered victims. In these cases, 412 suspects appear, of which 250 cases are referred to the courts. Today, 50 sentences have already been passed, but only one person is serving the actual sentence.

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