Arsen Avakov: Law enforcement officers investigate four groups of murders in Maidan
The law
enforcement officers have been engaged into investigating of four groups of
murders in Maidan. The Minister of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov informed during a joint
media conference with participation of the Acting Prosecutor General of Ukraine
Oleh Makhnitsky and Head of
the Security Service of Ukraine Valentyn Nalyvaychenko.
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According
to Arsen Avakov, the investigation
that is supervised by the Prosecutor General Office has figuratively divided the
facts of killings in the centre of Kyiv into four groups. The first
part comprises killings by sharp shooters, the second – results of direct
shoots by automatic firearm and semi-automatic weapon, more likely – by the
law enforcement officers. One more group of crimes singled out by the investigators
includes the facts of killings by the so-called Titushkas.
The fourth part of the investigated crimes comprises the facts of deaths of
security officers. The separate
fragment studied by the investigators is use of the Berkut
special subdivision in the events in the Instytutska
street. Arsen Avakov demonstrated
the schemes and explained the details. All participants
of this event have been identified and now it is being investigated the stage
of involvement of every sharp shooter. The leader of this subdivision has
been detained. Now necessary kinds of expertise are being conducted: ballistic,
expert firearm tests etc. “We are discussing
the first stage, as the investigation is underway. Hence, we are talking
today about the fragments concerning which the decision they can be revealed
today has been adopted,” Arsen Avakov
noted. |