The State Traffic Police has promised not to interfere with vehicles entering Maidan, Svoboda Party press office reports.
“After waiting for three hours, the protesters eventually made their way, Also, Ihor Opanasenko, Acting Deputy Chief of the State Traffic Police, has officially announced that from now on they would not block vehicles. The traffic cops also promised to stop repressions against Automaidan members,” the opposition stated.
The traffic police had been summoning for interviews those people who went to the residence of President Viktor Yanukovych in Mezhyhirya on Sunday, December 29. Traffic police officers had even been going to the homes of activists.
In addition, on January 2, in a briefing the commandants of the Trade Unions House complained that the traffic police had been impeding cars from going to Maidan for the camp’s maintenance.
In this regard, on Friday, January 3, Maidan activists picketed the Kyiv Department of the State Traffic Police on Bohdan Khmelnytsky St., demanding a meeting with the chief.
Related to the picketing on January 3, a traffic police officer was filmed seemingly acting as if he had been pushed by an Automaidan activist’s car.
Original in Ukrainian on the Ukrainska Pravda website:
