Kyivsky District Court of Odesa has found a 38-year-old Belarusian citizen guilty of active participation in mass riots, namely resisting representatives of the authorities, disorder, and hurling of stones, which led to serious consequences, the press service of the Odesa Regional Prosecutor’s Office reported on Feb.2.
The defendant pleaded guilty and repented at a court session. The court sentenced him to five years in prison and gave him three years’ probation.
The prosecutor’s office specified that this case had been withdrawn as a separate proceeding from a general investigation that law enforcement agencies conducted into the events of May 2, 2014 on Hretska Square in Odesa.
The man, who stayed outside Ukraine before, was found in a house of his relative and detained by law enforcement officers of Chornomorsk (formerly Illichivsk) in Odesa region.
The guilty verdict has currently entered into force.
A source in law enforcement agencies told Interfax-Ukraine that the issue concerned anti-Maidan activist, Belarusian citizen Oleg Tkachuk.
As reported, on Sept.18, 2017, Illichivsk City Court (Chornomorsk, Odesa region) found the prosecution’s evidence that 19 defendants organized and took part in riots entailing grave consequences, such as deaths and injuries of people, in Odesa on May 2, 2014, to be inadequate. Two of the 19 were later detained by SBU officers on suspicion of committing a number of other crimes.
As many as 48 people were killed and over 200 were injured in mass riots in Odesa on May 2, 2014. Most of them died at the House of Trade Unions. Investigators said that mass disturbances in Odesa had been organized and deliberately plotted.
