Lawyers for the Heavenly Hundred families want to attach to the case materials about the murders of the Revolution of Dignity activists on February 20, 2014, a digital reconstruction of the events of that day. One has been produced by the Carnegie Mellon Research Center for Human Rights and the American company Situ Research, with the support of the International Renaissance Foundation.
Based on the 65 hours of video, the 2D plan of Kyiv, the 3D point cloud of events and the protocols of pathological anatomy, lawyers provided victims with injuries, Western experts reconstructed the events that led to the death of three protesters: Ihor Dmitriyev, Andriy Dyhdalovych and Yuriy Parashchuk.
“A large amount of video about the events of February 20 was published, but to reduce them to one evidentiary base, and on the basis of other evidence and materials that were collected as a result of the investigation, it was extremely important for us to establish the commission of the crime,” Heavenly Hundred lawyer Pavlo Dykan said.
Lawyer Oleksandr Yatsenko said the reconstruction is an extremely important proof that the victims were fatally wounded “precisely from the sector where the law enforcers were.”
At the same time, he said Ukraine has never dealt with such a massacre, and that the Criminal Procedure Code does not provide for using international expertise.
Kyiv’s Sviatoshynsky District Court since February 2016 has held hearings on charges of against Pavlo Abroskin, Serhiy Zinchenko, Oleksandr Marynchenko, Serhiy Tamtura and Oleh Yanyshevsky, former Berkut riot police officers suspected of involvement in the killing of 48 Maidan activists on February 20, 2014.
