If the forensic medical expert is right, then the young man on trial for the murder of a child that led to shocking anti-Roma riots in the Odesa oblast could not have committed the crime. 23-year-old Mykola Chebotar has been in custody since shortly after 8-year-old Angelina’s body was found close to her home on August 27, 2016, and the first question should perhaps be why given the significant clash between the forensic evidence and the prosecution’s indictment.
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Misha, 34, speaks to an AFP journalist on June 25, in a Roma camp on the outskirts of Lviv which is hidden in the forest on the other side of the city and still remains inhabited.On June 23, a group of masked individuals attacked the camp on the outskirts of the city of Lviv with knives killing one person and injuring four others including a child.
